Where did your user name come from?
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TES! Of course. I just never put the two together before. Love that game series though.
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My nickname is just from the astrophysics term, darkmatter. At the time I first used it in 2001, it was almost never taken anywhere. First use was in an old MMORPG called Ragnarok Online. Since then, I've adopted the "matter" portion of the name to create alternate character names like lightmatter, antimatter, dontmatter, whatsamatter, etc.
Now it is more frequently already in use, and I tend to register darkmattar (like on the TDWTF CS forums) as an alternative because that's never taken. The misspelling as -ar instead of -er came from the common typo meme.
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Well, my username here is from my birth certificate, but my username on Steam (technically two usernames because I have a custom URL from a while ago) are from:
- Nightgunner5 was my RuneScape username which was my childhood friend Vlad's username with a 5 tacked on the end.
- Casimer the Adequately Skilled was the result of making a Dwarf Fortress-themed name generator for a different game that you probably never heard of. It was a combination of "Casimer" which was a weird name we found in the name list (funnily enough, the name list was put together by the same Vlad) and "the Adequately Skilled" which was based on "the Adequately Prepared" which was based on "YOU ARE NOT PREPARED" from one of the World of Warcraft Burning Crusade trailers.
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I go by different handles on different forums, so I looked for one I'd like for this forum. The most obvious nickname was taken, so I took the second most obvious.
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Back in 3rd grade I got bored while sitting in time out for having thrashed some kid who wouldn't stop bugging me behind the teachers' backs and I made up a ridiculous cosmological story about an alien; a few weeks after that, sitting in time out again, I decided I needed to make up a language for them. This was, oddly, well before I was exposed to Tolkien.
The structure of the language was pretty naïve at the time, but managed not to be a direct cipher for English, and incorporated some bits of Irish Gaelic I'd picked up from my grandmother (mostly when she cursed).
"Vaelyn" /'vaEɭyn̥/ means "stars' fire". The -phi on the end is just a cheesy math joke, since online services often ask you to put a number on the end of a SN when it's already taken.
Anyhow, I got into the conlang biz early in life. I like to think it was from reading some authors and wondering why their made-up names sounded so fake and silly.
Damn, these pop-up boxes are distracting, aren't they? Also, I think I might get a crick in my neck composing a message looking at the bottom corner of my laptop screen... something exacerbated by it being 17".
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one year short of 0x30
Get off my lawn, you whippersnapper!
My name is pretty obvious. I used to design hardware; now I test the hardware my cow-orkers design. My avatar is a picture of a chip I found on the web; I've no idea what it is.
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make up a language ... conlang
Oh, dear. Well, it can't be worse than @ben_lubar spewing lojban. I hope.
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I would poopoo lojban, but I think for maximal effect I need to be able to do it in lojban. Or maybe Klingon.
Linguistic trolls can be the best trolls. Learn lojban and Klingon and then go the a board full of lojban newbs and alternate between the two and see if they understand anything.
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Back when I was in high school, I decided I needed an online nickname. I happened to like the game [url=http://doom.wikia.com/wiki/Hexen]Hexen[/url], so I took the name of the [url=http://doom.wikia.com/wiki/Fighter]Fighter[/url]'s [url=http://doom.wikia.com/wiki/Quietus]4th weapon[/url] and appended a "t" to the end.
Filed Under: [url=#]Because it didn't work really well with any of the other weapons in that game[/url]
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Back when I was in high school, I decided I needed an online nickname. I happened to like the game [url=http://doom.wikia.com/wiki/Hexen]Hexen[/url], so I took the name of the [url=http://doom.wikia.com/wiki/Fighter]Fighter[/url]'s [url=http://doom.wikia.com/wiki/Quietus]4th weapon[/url] and appended a "t" to the end.
Filed Under: [url=#]Because it didn't work really well with any of the other weapons in that game[/url]
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I need to play with Magic Set Editor again and make some cards.
We need a MTG: TDWTF expansion.
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We need a MTG: TDWTF expansion.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/627324241/release-the-game
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While that's all very spiffy, that doesn't change the need for MTG CCG: TDWTF::DC Edition.
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Back when I was in high school, I decided I needed an online nickname. I happened to like the game Hexen, so I took the name of the Fighter's 4th weapon and appended a "t" to the end.
Filed Under: Because it didn't work really well with any of the other weapons in that game
Interesting. I was always trying (and failing) to connect your username with Star Trek since your avatar is Q. Never made the Hexen connection and I used to play that a lot.
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Stupid physics.
Yeah, always reading my mind...
Filed under: Technically all my thoughts are governed by physics.
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Filed under: Technically all my thoughts are governed by physics.
That's an interesting point, actually. Do neuroelectrical impulses get measurably affected by uncertainty principle? If not, it is technically all Newtonian physics, meaning that with a good enough model you could read someone's mind.
Filed under: Weird science, bring your own barbie dolls
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Do neuroelectrical impulses get measurably affected by uncertainty principle?
Probably not, or at least not very much. There's that much other stuff sloshing around in there (especially all the water molecules) that keeping a quantum state isolated enough to use for computation or storage purposes is highly unlikely. That said, quantum effects are present in the action of chlorophyll (yeah, not that there's a lot in our brain cells) so it's hard to say for sure that there's nothing like that happening.
But I'd strongly bet on Heisenbergian uncertainty effects being negligible.
Filed under: think of the brain as the world's most complex self-modifying computer…
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Filed under: think of the brain as the world's most complex self-modifying computer…
And it runs on 20 watts1.
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ZX Spectrum users
Oh! Memory Lane! Used my paper route money to order this nice piece of kit from some magazine back in the early 80's, got the DIY version. That started me down the dark path…
Edit: My user name is just a shortened version of my real one…
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Then you had people like me and my dad that would load stuff off tape and then do some voodoo on the +3 to save it to disk. Psion Scrabble with its 5 minutes loading time? Pah! Pah, I say! (Though we had a 48K model 2 first)
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I happened to like the game Hexen, so I took the name of the Fighter's 4th weapon and appended a "t" to the end.
I had assumed it was something to do with "Children Of Men"...
@Wikipedia said:
Elderly/infirm citizens have become a burden; nursing homes are for the privileged few. The rest are expected and sometimes forced to commit suicide by taking part in a "Quietus" (Council-sanctioned mass drownings) at the age of 60.
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Which in itself sounds suspiciously like Logan's Run to me but with better names for things.
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I like cheesy math joke.
you have dialed an imaginary number, please rotate your handset ninety degrees and try again
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Quantum physics isn't about small stuff. It's about discrete stuff. Even regular full sized computers have quantum limitations, based on the difficulty of distinguishing between 0 and 1 (i.e., 0 volts and 5 volts). It takes time to make the transition, and even if a "long" time has passed, the measurement can still come out "wrong". See "Gibb's phenomenon", and the Fourier transform expression of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle.
Now consider that the brain works on voltages on the order of millivolts. Suddenly, whether a neuron fires or not depends on when it "measures" whether it should.
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Which in itself sounds suspiciously like Logan's Run to me but with better names for things.
And fewer jumpsuits
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A byte walks into a bar and orders a beer.
The bartender gives him a beer and asks: "What's wrong?"
"Parity error", the byte says.
"Ah, I thought you looked a bit off"
Filed under: Not math, but I just heard it the other day so it's new to me
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"There are only 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don't."
Filed under: these jokes would make a nice topic as well.
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"There are only 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don't."
What's the last one?
Filed under: people who confuse binary and ternary
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you have dialed an imaginary number, please rotate your handset ninety degrees and try again
There is a topic for that ... please remove this post and repost it in the appropiate topic.
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Filed under: people who confuse binary and ternary
There are only 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand quaternary, those who don't, those who confuse it with ternary, and those who get annoyed with @ben_lubar for posting the lame joke they wanted to make before they got chance.
Filed under: I think I rescued the situation.
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There are only 10 kinds of people: those who understand hexadecimal, and F the rest.
Filed under: are we done with base jokes now?
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(i.e., 0 volts and 5 volts)
Computers haven't used those levels for quite some time now internally; they actually use substantially lower voltages so the energy to switch is reduced.
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Back when I was in my mid teens there was a song called Doctor Jones by a band called Aqua. Naturally all of the kids at school tortured me with it non stop.
I used to find it really annoying, but then one time while I was playing in a school
soccerfootball match, I was just about to come on as a substitute and my friends in the crowd started singingDoctor Jones, Jones,
Calling Doctor Jones,
Doctor Jones,
Doctor Jones,
Come on nowIt made me smile and I kinda liked it from that point onwards.
Doctor Jones is usually already taken on most games and forums, so I used to register as Docta Jonez. Now that non-unique display names are more common I've gone back to using Doctor Jones.
As an aside... my real name is Matt Jones, which is a combination of one of the most common first names and one of the most common surnames. You can imagine how difficult it is to get a decent email address... The only way it could be any worse is if I was called John Smith.
My avatar is from the end of last year. At work we have a fancy dress day at Christmas where each department chooses a theme to come dressed as. We chose Star Wars, so I came as a Jedi. My friend who is the company photographer thought it'd be cool to try taking a photo with the lights dimmed and just the lightsabre on. It turned out pretty well so I use it as my avatar.
One of the artwork designers came as the Emperor and we had a photo taken of us fighting. He then added some effects and you can see the very cool result here. I use it as my profile background.
Filed under: Best day evar!
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I just finished Ender's Game, when a local gaming magazine opened a renewed forum.
There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation, naming things and off-by-one errors.
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John Smith
I was at school with someone called that.
And he became the university's president.
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Back in high school some friends (that I'd known for years at that point) started calling me Spencer (which isn't my real name - frist, middle or last). It stuck with me as a name to use as an alter ego and places where I wanted some anonymity rather than using my other screen name (which is always one of two variations based from my surname, and 128 added to the end if either of those is taken)
Filed under: necropost ftw!
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Back in high school some friends (that I'd known for years at that point) started calling me Spencer
You've raised another question here.
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I was hungry and made a low-effort online name that turns out to too
stupiddumbunique to be taken in most places.
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I just finished Ender's Game, when a local gaming magazine opened a renewed forum.
There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation, naming things and off-by-one errors.
I see. You wanted to be 'sender'?
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"fucking cunt" is not, apparently, acceptable in many online communities.
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RAPE CULTURE <description>
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30% agar, 60% sperm, 10% blood