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Companion Cube · Post by **Companion Cube** » 2003-12-06 02:10pm

I'm a fan of a little-known anime series, which is what I based my SN on...

Captain Cyran · Post by **Captain Cyran** » 2003-12-06 02:22pm

Screen Name came from a Sci-Fi thing I'm writing. Don't know where I got Cyran from...just seems kinda cool.

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2003-12-06 02:27pm

salm wrote:i picked my name putting together a couple of letters randomly. only later was i told that there was some star wars captain(?) salm. nice coincidence.

General Horton Salm, commander of Defender Wing. He was also responsible for rebuilding Rogue Squadron under Wedge Antilles. He accused Tycho Selchu of treason after the guy that people think is my namesake (

) disappeared.

David · Post by **David** » 2003-12-06 02:28pm

Guess

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2003-12-06 02:29pm

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:Vald, with all honesty, I think you have one of the best titles here.

"Outside Context Problem" just has a fantastic ring to it.

Why thank you, Mr. Dolphin.

I didn't want to have it originally because SyntaxVorlon had it in his sig for some time, then it went, then it came back and so on. But I was going to have "Culture Vulture" instead until I decided against it by popular demand. I use Culture Vulture on SB.com and others anyway.

"An Outside Context Problem was the sort of thing most civilisations encountered just once, and which they tended to encounter rather in the same way a sentence encountered a full stop. The usual example given to illustrate an Outside Context Problem was imagining you were a tribe on a largish, fertile island; you'd tamed the land, invented the wheel or writing or whatever, the neighbours were cooperative or enslaved but at any rate peaceful and you were busy raising temples to yourself with all the excess productive capacity you had, you were in a position of near-absolute power and control which your hallowed ancestors could hardly have dreamed of and the whole situation was just running along nicely like a canoe on wet grass... when suddenly this bristling lump of iron appears sailless and trailing steam in the bay and these guys carrying long funny-looking sticks come ashore and announce you've just been discovered, you're all subjects of the Emperor now, he's keen on presents called tax and these bright-eyed holy men would like a word with your priests."
-Iain M. Banks, Excession

Perhaps Third Impact could be defined as an OCP, hmm...

Peregrin Toker · Post by **Peregrin Toker** » 2003-12-06 03:30pm

My screenname here is my actual name. I used it because I thought I would be regarded as a coward if I chose a nickname instead.

And how wrong I was.

Raxmei · Post by **Raxmei** » 2003-12-06 03:37pm

Raxmei is my middle name. I think it means either 'bright' or 'sun' in Khmer. I use it online because it's unique to me and can pass for a pseudonym.

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2003-12-06 03:58pm

Imperator is the Latin root of the English word Emperor and one of the Roman emperors' many titles. I added Red because no matter how badass something is (like the Roman Empire), you can make it more badass by making it red. And anyone who knows me can tell you what a badass I am. It's a true fact.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2003-12-06 03:59pm

RedImperator wrote:Imperator is the Latin root of the English word Emperor and one of the Roman emperors' many titles. I added Red because no matter how badass something is (like the Roman Empire), you can make it more badass by making it red. And anyone who knows me can tell you what a badass I am. It's a true fact.

I bow to your mighty Badassness(TM).

Red is the superior choice of colour.

CrimsonRaine · Post by **CrimsonRaine** » 2003-12-06 04:00pm

3rd Impact wrote:I'm a fan of a little-known anime series, which is what I based my SN on...

Would that be Neon Genesis Evangelion?

One of the few anime's whose character's made my eye twitch (Asuka) and my brain burn (the entire plot)?

Crimson Raine

SyntaxVorlon · Post by **SyntaxVorlon** » 2003-12-06 04:02pm

Admiral Valdemar wrote:Perhaps Third Impact could be defined as an OCP, hmm...

Not likely it's more like mass extinction. A BDZ isn't the same as a major sudden change in philosophy that would accompany an OCP.
I've kept 3 examples in my sig to reduce confusion. Most people know at least one of them.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2003-12-06 04:02pm

CrimsonRaine wrote:
3rd Impact wrote:I'm a fan of a little-known anime series, which is what I based my SN on...
Would that be Neon Genesis Evangelion? One of the few anime's whose character's made my eye twitch (Asuka) and my brain burn (the entire plot)?

Crimson Raine

Bleh to you...

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2003-12-06 04:07pm

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:Besides, I'm also a lot like Shinji in many ways...

A shrill, insufferable whiner?

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2003-12-06 04:08pm

Well, more of the Hedgehog Dilemma stuff, really.

Hamel · Post by **Hamel** » 2003-12-06 04:17pm

I dug my name from the lead character in the Violinist of Hameln manga

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2003-12-06 04:19pm

my SN's fairly obvious. General Zod turned into a sith lord. should you somehow not know who zod is, go here

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2003-12-06 04:22pm

Darth_Zod wrote:my SN's fairly obvious. General Zod turned into a sith lord. should you somehow not know who zod is, go here

Terrence Stamp = teh coolness.

Brother-Captain Gaius · Post by **Brother-Captain Gaius** » 2003-12-06 04:29pm

My name is not based on the idea of a n00b Jedi. A bit after the WH40K Codex: Armageddon came out, by friend (who plays Black Templar) and I were playing a few games of 40K. I wandered over to his table where he was dogpiling a 15-man Marine squad in an assault on some poor enemy models. The extra 5 men were from the new Templar rules of Neophyte Space Marines. I knew the word of course, but still thought it sounded funny in this context, so I pointed at one and in the most annoying voice I could muster, I proclaimed, "Nnnnnnneophyte!". The humor is lost over a text medium, but it stuck and I continued annoying my friend with it for some time, until we got in a game of Firearms online and were losing badly. So we changed our names to the weakest, most comical 40K troops we could think of - Neophyte (myself) and Guardsman (my friend). I kept that for awhile until I later wanted to return to the Star Warsy roots of one of my first online names (JediTF2) and changed to JediNeophyte.

Companion Cube · Post by **Companion Cube** » 2003-12-06 04:29pm

CrimsonRaine wrote: Would that be Neon Genesis Evangelion? One of the few anime's whose character's made my eye twitch (Asuka) and my brain burn (the entire plot)?

Crimson Raine

Mwahaha! Fear my iridium-plated synapses!

Knife · Post by **Knife** » 2003-12-06 04:38pm

Knife was my callsign durring aggressing ops when I worked at a Combat Skills School in the USMC. I picked that callsign from a Clancy book, Clear and Present Danger. When I was stationed in the grunts my squad usually when by Jonny Walker but I liked Knife better for an individual basis.

I used it for so many years in the Corps., that when I signed up here it was the natural choice.

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-12-06 04:47pm

SyntaxVorlon wrote:I've kept 3 examples in my sig to reduce confusion. Most people know at least one of them.

Let's see...the Tardis, the 2001 monolith, and Kosh?

Phil and Tsyroc: Screw both of you

SyntaxVorlon · Post by **SyntaxVorlon** » 2003-12-06 05:23pm

Dalton wrote:
SyntaxVorlon wrote:I've kept 3 examples in my sig to reduce confusion. Most people know at least one of them.
Let's see...the Tardis, the 2001 monolith, and Kosh?

Phil and Tsyroc: Screw both of you

Yay
*Gives Dalton a cookie for:
A: Knowing all three like a good SF geek
B: Not berating me for comparing you to a character in Chronotrigger.
*I give you the Aero Dalton Imperial!
**Chronotrigger good guy music starts
*Hey STOP that music
**Music turns to Bad Guy theme.

Tsyroc · Post by **Tsyroc** » 2003-12-06 05:43pm

Dalton wrote:
Phil and Tsyroc: Screw both of you

I know, I know. You used to screw guys like us in prison? Oh wait, that was the other guy in Roadhouse. Nevermind.

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-12-06 07:02pm

SyntaxVorlon wrote:Yay
*Gives Dalton a cookie for:
A: Knowing all three like a good SF geek
B: Not berating me for comparing you to a character in Chronotrigger.
*I give you the Aero Dalton Imperial!
**Chronotrigger good guy music starts
*Hey STOP that music
**Music turns to Bad Guy theme.

LOL, yeah, well, what can I say. His special move was a belch.

Tsyroc wrote:I know, I know. You used to screw guys like us in prison? Oh wait, that was the other guy in Roadhouse. Nevermind.

...remind me to learn Cartman's "I Hate You Guys" song.

Chardok · Post by **Chardok** » 2003-12-06 07:32pm

Chardok is a place in everquest where many, many, many people die. it is without a doubt the most horrid non-planar zone in the game. Whomever designed it with the spawn points and aggro radii of the mobs should be shot, stabbed, beaten, hanged, drawn, quartered, and awarded 10,000,000.00 USD for creating the most challenging zone in all of everquest.

Sarnaks=Teh Death.

(I actually chose it because I didn't think anyone else would. My usual screenname is FinFreak72. I'm sure any self respecting football fan knows why, but I didn't pick FinFreak72 because I just thought it sounded a bit...childish....for this board (As opposed to the name of a zone from a MMORPG

) My logic is a bit skewed.

)