I Post with My Real Name

[AgentNein]

I'd just like to point out that I do not post with my real name not because I do not wish to be held accountable for what I say online (I'm pretty much the same guy in real life) but because some people online are creepers and I'd rather they not have any of my personal information.

 

[Dango]

Now this is just silly. If posted a few weeks ago, this thread would've become a pony thread within minutes.

 

[MaxwellMurder]

I'd just like to point out that I do not post with my real name not because I do not wish to be held accountable for what I say online (I'm pretty much the same guy in real life) but because some people online are creepers and I'd rather they not have any of my personal information.

and I respect that Sascha (Nice Psychonaghts reference with your name)

 

[dstryfe]

My username has spilled over into my normal life to the point of being called by it with people I've known for years. This is because I use it pretty much everywhere.

This. I am dstryfe pretty much everywhere you see it online...except XBox Live, stunningly, where someone beat me to it in order to get Bioshock acheivements (and none other). There it's d5tryfe. This is the way I try feeling responsible for what I say on top of still hiding. That said, I tend not to say stupid things because I don't want to be responsible for the stupid things floating around the internet.

 

[AgentNein]

I'd just like to point out that I do not post with my real name not because I do not wish to be held accountable for what I say online (I'm pretty much the same guy in real life) but because some people online are creepers and I'd rather they not have any of my personal information.

and I respect that Sascha (Nice Psychonaghts reference with your name)

Cookie is in the mail!

 

[MaxwellMurder]

I may not use it, but go click on my profile. It links to my Facebook, which has my real name. And I have a picture of myself on my user profile here. Also, my name sucks. I have good reason to not use it.

Your name is awesome it is twilight sparkle.

I now want to legally change my name to Twilight Sparkle now. You have given me inspiration. Thank you, Mr. Mott. Thank you.

(also I think of apple sauce when I see your last name. Isn't Mott a brand of apple sauce?)

My nickname is Big Mackintosh

 

[Fightgarr]

While I relegate my real name to my profile on this site, my real name is more or less present as my ConceptArt.org posting name. The reason being that where my postings on the Escapist are mostly casual, I'm on ConceptArt.org for professional reasons. If clients were to contact me through that website I'd rather be called by a semblance of my real name than by an obscure reference to an increasingly obsolete internet cartoon.

 

[hardlymotivated]

Woah, slow down there, big man. Don't want to become too hardcore.

 

[deathbydeath]

I will say good for ya!
but I don't disclose my actual name because I hate my actual name. I am not hiding! I just hate my name.

hmmm. i can't find you. you sure you're not hiding?

for all you know I could be in a cave in the middle of the Rockies.

hmmm, that gave me an idea. i'll be blasting metal for about an hour, let me know if you hear anything. i could use a friend.

 

[MaxwellMurder]

Now this is just silly. If posted a few weeks ago, this thread would've become a pony thread within minutes.

Sorry dude there was already an attempted derailment from page 3 to 4

 

[Flailing Escapist]

I post with my fingers and this keyboard

 

[Sacman]

So? not everything or everybody on the internet has a deeper meaning behind their user name, it isn't about hiding behind it or using it as a shield, most of the time they simply choose it because it sounds cool and the few people who truly use it as a shield generally see it as more of a way to be someone else and escape their normal life not as an escape from responsibility. besides using your real name is utterly pointless since no one cares who you are anyway, a simple name doesn't distinguish you from anyone else in the world anyway. you may look at it as an expression of yourself but in truth it does almost nothing to distinguish you from xXSup4133tkillaz-c4pacopXx. worst of all however you seem to think that using your real name to "take responsibility." makes you better than everyone else when in truth it means as little as having a user name with a "d" in it...

 

[Haydyn]

My name and where I live are no secret. Nobody is going to come rape me just because they know where I live. I hate the whole "online anonymousity" that lets people be assholes. I hate trash talking, I hate arguing. Even when I'm stoned I'll still be polite in Halo Matchmaking.

 

[Fidelias]

Okay, well good for you, but I don't feel like letting complete strangers know EVERY SINGLE THING about me.

Plus, I have usernames that are based off of stuff I'm into at the time. For instance, anyone who has read the Codex Alera series would know that Fidelias (IS THE MOST AWESOMEST CHARACTER EVER) is from that series. So it's obvious that I not only read the series, but also loved it enough to use it as my online name.

Plus, how is it more responsible that you use your real name? I mean, the only thing that affects is that now someone can take a 3 hour trip to your house to harm you.
To the rest of us who are normal, what do we care? Your name could be "Fuzzymcnuzzlepuffs" and it would carry the same amount of weight.

 

[Dango]

Snippty

That's just because we didn't try hard enough!

Me too. Nice to meet you Mr. Mott

Nice to meet you too Mr. Valdez. Hows the Weather at your end it is rainy in Connecticut.

Well over here in good ol' California its sunny sunny sunny. Perfect beach weather. BTW I couldnt help but notice you played L.A. Noire, Portal 2 AND have a My little pony avatar. Good man.

I Don't hid it I like watching My Little Pony Friendship is Magic.

Also just realized I could have done this instead of message. Derp

YAY Learning!!!!

Were a couple pictures away from derailing this into a pony thread

Lets do it

I see your Mortal Kombat and raise you...

Bravo

Considering the flame war this is devolving into, a minor derailment would probably help.

 

[MaxwellMurder]

So? not everything or everybody on the internet has a deeper meaning behind their user name, it isn't about hiding behind it or using it as a shield, most of the time they simply choose it because it sounds cool and the few people who truly use it as a shield generally see it as more of a way to be someone else and escape their normal life not as an escape from responsibility. besides using your real name is utterly pointless since no one cares who you are anyway, a simple name doesn't distinguish you from anyone else in the world anyway. you may look at it as an expression of yourself but in truth it does almost nothing to distinguish you from xXSup4133tkillaz-c4pacopXx. worst of all however you seem to think that using your real name to "take responsibility." makes you better than everyone else when in truth it means as little as having a user name with a "d" in it...

I don't have any personal connection to any name I have been given or i have given my self but we must live with a label so i will live with the one my parents gave me. If i could live the rest of my life without a name I would love it but I can't so I Go by Evan. OK Chris

 

[MaxwellMurder]

Snippty

That's just because we didn't try hard enough!

Me too. Nice to meet you Mr. Mott

Nice to meet you too Mr. Valdez. Hows the Weather at your end it is rainy in Connecticut.

Well over here in good ol' California its sunny sunny sunny. Perfect beach weather. BTW I couldnt help but notice you played L.A. Noire, Portal 2 AND have a My little pony avatar. Good man.

I Don't hid it I like watching My Little Pony Friendship is Magic.

Also just realized I could have done this instead of message. Derp

YAY Learning!!!!

Were a couple pictures away from derailing this into a pony thread

Lets do it

I see your Mortal Kombat and raise you...

Bravo

Considering the flame war this is devolving into, a minor derailment would probably help.

 

[Dango]

Snippty

That's just because we didn't try hard enough!

Me too. Nice to meet you Mr. Mott

Nice to meet you too Mr. Valdez. Hows the Weather at your end it is rainy in Connecticut.

Well over here in good ol' California its sunny sunny sunny. Perfect beach weather. BTW I couldnt help but notice you played L.A. Noire, Portal 2 AND have a My little pony avatar. Good man.

I Don't hid it I like watching My Little Pony Friendship is Magic.

Also just realized I could have done this instead of message. Derp

YAY Learning!!!!

Were a couple pictures away from derailing this into a pony thread

Lets do it

I see your Mortal Kombat and raise you...

Bravo

Considering the flame war this is devolving into, a minor derailment would probably help.

You might want to edit some text into that as not to get a mod warning.

Anyway:

 

[Brian Hendershot]

/golfclap Evan Mott

also: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/codeofconduct, section 3, item 3

maybe you can think of some way to get positive attention (it feels better than negative attention i've been told). you have my sympathies, though. best of luck.

How is he disrespecting the site?

Unless you mean section 3, item four. To that I have to say, he has clearly started a discussion here of some sorts (even if half of it is about those blasted ponies).

Anyways, I use my real name because...well..let's face it. If you spend five minutes on the internet and someone can find out everything about you. I promise.

And I was too lazy to come up with a new username. BraveLilWonton seems a little overused to me.