BrotherFerg Posted January 3, 2017 Posted January 3, 2017 (edited) Ah, but how do we know this isn't just an account you made to seed the alt you planned on the Codex with history? Hah, seriously though, alt fear isn't unique to that place. Half the unpopular members here are accused of being alts of obyknven or lord_of_flies. Not trying to be Decline, but this forum isn't very active and I have a lot of free time so I've been reaching outside of Gog and steam to find a place that is on my level. Will I ever find one? It's not impossible, am I too advanced for my peers? Absolutely. *As an example I made a thread here (with irrefutable proof) that Bevil in NWN2 is clearly Samwise Gamgee's doppelgänger. It went over everyone's head. I made the same post in Codex and everyone LOST IT. I'm surprised it wasn't stickied. Edited January 3, 2017 by BrotherFerg Why does a chair have arms and legs like a man, but can't walk or hold things?
BrotherFerg Posted January 3, 2017 Posted January 3, 2017 Well i've become very popular at the codex, someone even made an entire thread about me. Link?The OP thinks I am an alt. My name there is Barnabas same avatar.http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/index.php?threads/final-solution-to-the-alt-question.112795/ You know I am going to make an account now on Codex just so I can comment.....you made me think of something funny Let me know your user name if you do Why does a chair have arms and legs like a man, but can't walk or hold things?
BruceVC Posted January 3, 2017 Posted January 3, 2017 Well i've become very popular at the codex, someone even made an entire thread about me.Link?The OP thinks I am an alt. My name there is Barnabas same avatar.http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/index.php?threads/final-solution-to-the-alt-question.112795/ You know I am going to make an account now on Codex just so I can comment.....you made me think of something funny Let me know your user name if you do I will be using my normal name, no need to hide my name BruceVC when I will be making constructive comments about how the Codex can become a more cordial place and attract people who have some SJ values? I imagine some of you may be thinking they wont care but why wouldn't anyone want to improve themselves if confronted by reasonable criticism ? 2 "Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss” John Milton "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” - George Bernard Shaw "What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead" - Nelson Mandela
Amentep Posted January 3, 2017 Posted January 3, 2017 I had an account at the Codex, but its been so long since I posted I can't actually remember what it was (I think they revised the boards since then, so it may have been purged as inactive). I will be using my normal name, no need to hide my name BruceVC when I will be making constructive comments about how the Codex can become a more cordial place and attract people who have some SJ values?I imagine some of you may be thinking they wont care but why wouldn't anyone want to improve themselves if confronted by reasonable criticism ? What bad could happen? 4 I cannot - yet I must. How do you calculate that? At what point on the graph do "must" and "cannot" meet? Yet I must - but I cannot! ~ Ro-Man
Rosbjerg Posted January 3, 2017 Posted January 3, 2017 Hmm, made we wonder, if Brucie here is just a disgruntled guy, trying to get his neighbour BruceVC killed by posing as him online 4 Fortune favors the bald.
melkathi Posted January 3, 2017 Posted January 3, 2017 I was going to make a lot of obvious alts here, but I couldn't come up with funny things to discuss as these alts. Unobtrusively informing you about my new ebook (which you should feel free to read and shower with praise).
teknoman2 Posted January 3, 2017 Posted January 3, 2017 i started doing nothing this saturday and i feel like i need a couple more days to complete the task 1 The words freedom and liberty, are diminishing the true meaning of the abstract concept they try to explain. The true nature of freedom is such, that the human mind is unable to comprehend it, so we make a cage and name it freedom in order to give a tangible meaning to what we dont understand, just as our ancestors made gods like Thor or Zeus to explain thunder. -Teknoman2- What? You thought it was a quote from some well known wise guy from the past? Stupidity leads to willful ignorance - willful ignorance leads to hope - hope leads to sex - and that is how a new generation of fools is born! We are hardcore role players... When we go to bed with a girl, we roll a D20 to see if we hit the target and a D6 to see how much penetration damage we did. Modern democracy is: the sheep voting for which dog will be the shepherd's right hand.
melkathi Posted January 3, 2017 Posted January 3, 2017 That is commitment. Don't stop until you are 100% finished with the task you had set out to complete. Unobtrusively informing you about my new ebook (which you should feel free to read and shower with praise).
Guard Dog Posted January 3, 2017 Posted January 3, 2017 Hmm, made we wonder, if Brucie here is just a disgruntled guy, trying to get his neighbour BruceVC killed by posing as him online You know the political climate in the USA being what it is that might even work "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before" Thomas Sowell
Gorth Posted January 3, 2017 Author Posted January 3, 2017 I was going to make a lot of obvious alts here, but I couldn't come up with funny things to discuss as these alts.Obvious alts... MelkathII, MelkathIII, MelkathIV, MelkathV, MelkathVI ? 1 “He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.” - Albert Einstein
Blarghagh Posted January 3, 2017 Posted January 3, 2017 I was going to make a lot of obvious alts here, but I couldn't come up with funny things to discuss as these alts. I wanted to make an alt completely in character as Bruce Campbell but sadly impersonation is one of those alt rules that will get it banned. Silly forum guidelines.
Malcador Posted January 3, 2017 Posted January 3, 2017 Wondering how Sargon of Akkad videos ended up on my YouTube suggestions. Well, better than the UFO conspiracy ones, I guess Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra
Orogun01 Posted January 3, 2017 Posted January 3, 2017 I was going to make a lot of obvious alts here, but I couldn't come up with funny things to discuss as these alts. I wanted to make an alt completely in character as Bruce Campbell but sadly impersonation is one of those alt rules that will get it banned. Silly forum guidelines. That seems like one of those things that you might like so much that you don't go back to being your regular self. 1 I'd say the answer to that question is kind of like the answer to "who's the sucker in this poker game?"* *If you can't tell, it's you.
Blarghagh Posted January 4, 2017 Posted January 4, 2017 Oh yes, I used him on a few message boards over the years but I only go here these days and I really miss shilling "my" autobiography, "If Chins Could Kill". 3
BruceVC Posted January 4, 2017 Posted January 4, 2017 http://edition.cnn.com/2017/01/03/health/two-year-old-rescues-brother-video/index.html Guys you must watch this video, its really heartwarming and cute "Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss” John Milton "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” - George Bernard Shaw "What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead" - Nelson Mandela
melkathi Posted January 4, 2017 Posted January 4, 2017 (edited) I was going to make a lot of obvious alts here, but I couldn't come up with funny things to discuss as these alts.Obvious alts... MelkathII, MelkathIII, MelkathIV, MelkathV, MelkathVI ? Good idea! Mine was to do evil twins for forum regulars; FalseNeutral. Yesnek, Burglar Cat etc. I am not sure how to do the opposite for the Amen in Amentep or the Vietcong in BruceVC. Stallionshuteyese would probably have made people groan. Edited January 4, 2017 by melkathi Unobtrusively informing you about my new ebook (which you should feel free to read and shower with praise).
Malcador Posted January 4, 2017 Posted January 4, 2017 Awomentep and BruceMACV? Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra
Amentep Posted January 4, 2017 Posted January 4, 2017 Amentep was most likely derived from Amenhotep, so...Hotep? I cannot - yet I must. How do you calculate that? At what point on the graph do "must" and "cannot" meet? Yet I must - but I cannot! ~ Ro-Man
melkathi Posted January 4, 2017 Posted January 4, 2017 (edited) I think Malcador's version makes more sense Ωwomentep has a ring to it. Edited January 4, 2017 by melkathi Unobtrusively informing you about my new ebook (which you should feel free to read and shower with praise).
Amentep Posted January 4, 2017 Posted January 4, 2017 Dang...shot down suggesting my own evil twin name. Oh the humility...! I cannot - yet I must. How do you calculate that? At what point on the graph do "must" and "cannot" meet? Yet I must - but I cannot! ~ Ro-Man
Blarghagh Posted January 4, 2017 Posted January 4, 2017 Well you clearly don't even know for sure where you name came from. "Most likely" derived from? Hogwash!
Azdeus Posted January 4, 2017 Posted January 4, 2017 First real snow arrived today, wich means my face has been in a perpetual all day long! I love snow, and now even more so, when I have a drivers licence and a real wheel drive car. Wheeeeeeeeeeee! FUN! It's also amazing how many people around here don't know how to drive in the snow, I spent 15 minutes out of 60 just waiting for people to get moving. All that said, I'm really considering buying new winter tyres, the previous owner bought winter tyres without studs in it, wich means they're worthless on ice and packed snow. I really hope I get my money soon. Until then, WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. - H.L. Mencken
melkathi Posted January 4, 2017 Posted January 4, 2017 You'd think people in Sweden were used to snow Unobtrusively informing you about my new ebook (which you should feel free to read and shower with praise).
Azdeus Posted January 4, 2017 Posted January 4, 2017 You'd think people in Sweden were used to snow To be fair, it's somewhat rare here in the south, but yeah, the ought to be more used to it. Was quite relaxing during the drive home since 90% of people on the road was doing ~70kmh when the speed limit was 100. There was'nt really any snow on the motorways either, since they've salted the roads in anticipation, but still people where scared. Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. - H.L. Mencken
Amentep Posted January 4, 2017 Posted January 4, 2017 Well you clearly don't even know for sure where you name came from. "Most likely" derived from? Hogwash! The name specifically comes from the back-up comic in Whiz Comics #2 (Feb. 1940) called 'Ibis the Invincible'. This feature ran as a back-up to the 'Captain Marvel' (Shazam!) series for 155 issues of Whiz Comics (ending in 1953) and had an eponymous annual series for 6 issues (ending in 1948). The story and character were reportedly inspired, in part, by Universal's 1932 film The Mummy. This predates the 1940 start of the actual Universal Monster Films mummy, Kharis, in the film The Mummy's Hand. For some additional trivia, the actor playing Kharis in The Mummy's Hand, Tim Tyler, while primarily known as a Western star, would go on a year later and star as Captain Marvel in Republic's 1941 serial The Adventures of Captain Marvel. Another obvious inspiration was Lee Falk's Mandrake the Magician (first published June 11, 1934). Anyhow, 'Ibis the Invincible' was Prince Amentep an heir to the Pharaoh who was overthrown by an evil magician empowered by Set. Amentep had the Ibistick (a magical gift from Thoth) and saved his love, Taia, from being killed by the usurper's poison by putting her in suspended animation until the poison decayed and rendered impotent. He did the same with himself and he woke up in the 1940s in a museum as a display piece. He used his magic to escape and to save Taia again - as she had also woke up in a museum, but in war torn Europe. This being comic books, the pair took up a life fighting crime, Nazi's, Fifth columnists and supernatural entities that wanted to destroy the world. The theory on the inspiration for the name (since neither creator, Bill Parker or Bill Kingett were around when fandom began investigating the origins of these characters) is that it derived from the four famous pharaohs named Amenhotep. Ahmenhotep IV, rather famously, rejected the worship of Amun and is better known as Akhenaten - the pharaoh Egypt tried to erase from history and whose son eventually changed his name to Tutankhamen. Given the enduring fascination the US had with Howard Carter's find of Tutankhamen's tomb (it is part of the reason the original idea for a movie called Cagliostro about an undying Count Cagliostro trying to reunite with his reincarnated love was changed to be about an ancient Egyptian Imhotep trying the same for Universal's 1932 The Mummy, thus bringing the connections somewhat full circle). It is therefore considered very likely Amenhotep was used to base Amentep on given the public's familiarity of that time period's dynastic rulers and the other inspirations in the creation of the character. But the exact reason why Amentep was picked for the prince's name is, sadly, lost to history. 4 I cannot - yet I must. How do you calculate that? At what point on the graph do "must" and "cannot" meet? Yet I must - but I cannot! ~ Ro-Man
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