Registered: Aug 2000
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How did you think of such a rad name?

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Ok, let me first assume you're not making fun of me and you actually want to know.

Here goes.

I've been a long time fan of PC games even though I'm relatively young (19). I've been playing since the days of old Apogee shareware.

Anyway, for the most part I love flight sims (though I've been getting into FPS games since Half-Life). I grabbed up every flight game I could. Whether it was Wing Commander or Falcon 3.0 (yes, that's ancient 3.0 not 4.0) I didn't care; I love flight games.

So blah, blah, blah skip a few years...I got the game Longbow, and I loved it. It was one of the first sims that felt "really real"-not just like a game. Well, you could put your own callsign in the game, but there was a list of pre-made callsigns. If you chose one of the pre-made callsigns you'd be called by your callsign and not just Alpha flight 1 (or whatever) BTW: this only with the expansion pack "Flash Point Korea," if some of you played the game and have no idea what I'm talking about. So...one of the pre-made callsigns was "Droid." Which, given my affinity for Star Wars and robots seemed the appropriate choice. Because I loved Longbow so much and the word Droid is generally cool it stuck with me.

Ok, skip ahead a year and I'm getting online for the first time: time to choose a name. Well, I wanted Droid-but of course that had long been taken. So it was a choice between something lame like Droid1532 (or whatever) or something else. Well, a combination of my real name (Steve) and the callsign...and voila! we have Stevedroid-which didn't seem too lame so I stuck with it.

However, you'll notice that my name isn't actually Stevedroid but rather Stevedrioid (note the extra "i"). While my e-mail address and other forum names still hold the "one i" format, I've begun to use the "two i" format recently. No big reason for the switch except that "ioi" looks cooler in text and I felt this makes the name a little bit more original (there's a lot of Droids out there but not many Drioids)

So there you go...hey you asked for it!

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A word with two consecutive U's is vacuum.

A word with three U's? Well, that would just be unusual.

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Registered: Aug 2000
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He's not making fun of you - he only ever says "rad" when he's interested in something cool

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Registered: Aug 2000
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Rad. Thanx.

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quote:

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Originally posted by R128 Darklord:
Rad. Thanx.

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See?

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Interesting way to come up with a name. For all of you who think my name is AOL-esque, here's how I got it-first 3 letters of my last name, second letter of my first name, date/year of my birth. so, boct1584.

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I made mine up form peeps calling me it on pxo...

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whereas mine herald back to the days of darklord of takhisis of VBB fame

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Originally posted by Myself:
Interesting way to come up with a name. For all of you who think my name is AOL-esque, here's how I got it-first 3 letters of my last name, second letter of my first name, date/year of my birth. so, boct1584.

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LOL we don't have internet at our school.

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Damn, that sucks. Where do you go to school that you don't have Internet? Is it too remote, or is the school board comprised of a bunch of cheap bastards? (pardon my language)

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