At 10/7/09 07:08 AM, Coop83 wrote:
At 10/4/09 08:00 PM, gfoxcook wrote:
Namechanging is for people who don't want old friends to recognise them.
Dear Tom, please change my username to BorisJohnson :P That might not mean much to non-English types.
I didn't recall who that was off-hand, but after wiki-googling him, yes... London's mayor, I know of him and his reputation. Didn't realise the full extent of it, nor the namechangery aspect, till just now when I read up on it.
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, eh?
The TV sections on 'Have I Got News for You' and 'Who Do You Think You Are?' were particularly enlightening, in terms of his history with names (and the forgetting of and getting wrong of and such)! #;-}>
The only namechangery I ever do is from gfoxcook to gfox (did that on Steam because gfoxcook was too confusing/long/misinterpretable/misprono unced by TF2 players with mics, so I switch after a few months of being on Steam).
How can people fail to pronounce gfoxcook? "Gee-Focks-Cuhk" So simple. I'm still suffereing from people calling me Co-op, instead of Coop! See my ode to Shalashaska-1 for more info.
You'd be surprised. On at least two occasions a bit over a year ago, summer of '08 when I was new to Steam... I had 2-3 people fuck up gfoxcook over the mic, back before I had a mic (my baby got us one this past June, kinda a semi-birthday present to me, since I use it way more than her).
I can't remember exactly how they all screwed it up, but.... at least one of them was trying to tell me/ask me something important, gameplay/strategy/tactics wise.... and he stumbled after "gfox..." and couldn't finish the cook. Maybe it was just too long/too many syllables for him. O_o
But another one of them definitely didn't even get through the gfox, he fucked the fox up. In light of that... I suppose even gfox can be fucked up (girlfriend + ox?), but... yes, not often. I changed from gfoxcook to gfox because of the incidents mentioned above... back over a year ago, by August last year, and in the 15+ months since, have had little-to-no name confusion issues. Maybe one "gfox or whatever" in a snarky voice. Jeez... 4 fucking letters, people. Can't get much shorter than that. o_o
Oh, and on a semi-related TF2-+-my-username-angle... I've had at least 3 people assume I was a furry, which is hilarious. In their defense (unless they were just being evil/jokey bastards, and at least 1 of them definitely was), there are an amazing amount of people playing TF2 with names that include animal names in them, but... of course, there's no way they could know my fox originally referred to Fox Mulder and not our canine-ish friend in the wild (and/or the chicken coop) and then became my nom de plume of the intarwebs forever more.
At 7/19/09 03:10 AM, iscrulz wrote:
DOCH
Is that the German version of D'oh?
Doubtful, but the English version of "D'oh", is "Dough" :P
Mmmm.... dooouuuuugh.
And wees gots tha TORCHES. Were coming to the studio straight up angry mob style Springfield-like
Aw. I wanted a European style mob with pitchforks and torches, not a Springfield-like one. ;_;
So, Haggard in Lederhosen, drinking vast quantities of beer and eating sausage? This would be coupled with Auz riding a bike, wearing clogs and smoking the biggest joint / bong that he could find. Sonofkirk would walk by wearing a horizontally striped Navy Blue and White tight top, beret and string of onions, while Insanimation would be wearing a matador's outfit. As for me, I would pull up in my chauffeur driven Bentley, get out, wearing my top hat and monocle, before brandishing a cricket bat for the riot.
LOL! Add a Scotsman, an Irishman, and perhaps a few other assorted characters from Scandinavia and Eastern Europe and we've got ourselves a party!
Kudos on the above merry-go-round of stereotypes, BTW... the only one I wouldn't have been able to even come close to duplicating... would have been the Spanish one. I don't know Insanimation that well, so... couldn't have told you (or anyone) he was Spanish. Thanks for the FYI, there. #;-}>
Oh, and Bahamut would fly past and fire bomb whatever we were about to lynch with his mega-flare :P
mwahahahaha. Best. Stereotype. Of. All.
Silly dragons.... always snorting fire and shit. :::guffaws:::
At 7/17/09 01:36 PM, Coop83 wrote:
ADGBCer? What a quaint term.
I always wonder what that term meant all this time.
It means someone from ADGBC.com. In the beginning, that was people who were members of ADG (anime club on NG) and/or BC (blam club on NG).
Both of whom I have problems with. Anime is not proper animation, plus mass voting is to be abhorred.
Well, I stumbled into the Blam Club thread on NG in '03 or early '04 or something, and by that time, it was defunct, having basically outlived its purpose and usefulness by late 2002 when the save stat was introduced, no?
I then found my way to their humble forums in '04 and continued my friendship with the Blam Club folk I already knew some of from NG and some new anime club folk that I'd never met on NG (due to not frequenting that particular C&C thread), and.... it's been a good home away from home this past half-decade.
You don't have to like anime or blamming to find yourself at home, we're like a very quiet, very deserted version of the bar from Cheers. #;-}>
Lastly... I don't have an opinion on whether or not anime is proper animation or not, I wouldn't begin to claim knowledge of (or care about) what makes a cartoon proper... I do happen to enjoy some anime, not as much as most anime fans, perhaps... just like any other genre/medium, there's good and there's bad, and you find what you like. You can't possibly tell me you've never heard of/seen yourself a good anime!
If so.... egad, man! Get yourself some Bubblegum Crisis, Trigun, Cowboy Bebop, Utena, or Escaflowne... stat!
