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Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1340 Joined: 1 Jun 2008     | |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 4012 Joined: 17 Feb 2008    | Happy birthday to you! You look like a monkey Apparently that is what they sang on my first birthday, I'll assume it's appropriate here to. Anyway, slightly more OT. I myself see a slight divide between me and this account, not two different people though. I mean I at differently on The Escapist, but then again I act differently around my friends as well. I wouldn't say I'm a completely and utterly different person around my friends though, I mean like a whole new person though, like there is Dougal and then there is *insert friends name here* Dougal.
Yeah I should hope so!, thats freaky dude. |
BANNED  Posts: 11268 Joined: 3 Jan 2009     |
Oh god I remember that. Just to add something TROGDOOORR!!!And I can see how a separate personality can begin. For myself my posts usually reflect myself perfectly, and I also never go on RP as I find it the Retirement Home of the Escapist community. User was banned for: Why do Many Girls take Pictures of Themselves?. (Permanent) |
Red Guard  Posts: 6717 Joined: 24 Apr 2008    |
Rex, my mind spawned a character with an Avatar. That character, The Ultra Joe, was supposed to make fun of people and get bored very fast. He was built to fail, and be a self-parody of himself, without a self to parody. He was made to stumble. He did not stumble. Now UJ runs my computer, latching onto my face whenever I sit down and he soars through the escapist, transcending even me showing up in the flesh because he's just a cooler person than I am. And then to compound the creepy, he has a second personality/roomate/evil twin character who also started as a joke and is now rising from the grave more readily than Nosfer-freakin'-ratu. It's like they claw their way out of my mind and then refuse to die. I perfectly understand your predicament. |
On the Record  Posts: 5594 Joined: 3 Mar 2008    |
Lord Krunk took a life of his own as early as the DMHBKBN (Darth Mobius Has Been Kidnapped By Ninjas) thread.
My personality matches his, and vice-versa.
Not necessarily, it's more like me keeping Krunk on a leash. Oh, and happy escapist birthday! |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1511 Joined: 9 May 2009     | I would say that is certainly a sign of a mental disorder. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 4012 Joined: 17 Feb 2008 |
It's not the retirement home, it's the graveyard. The Escapist just hasn't got an RP community any more. |
On the Record  Posts: 6534 Joined: 10 Mar 2008    | I've used Jumplion as a username alot, so it's grown on me for a while. It's almost as if I have a lion........and I must jump with it..... |
On the Record  Posts: 7415 Joined: 23 Dec 2007  | It happens. |
On the Record  Posts: 5542 Joined: 13 Aug 2008 | Well, for me, it's less that my online persona has become a different person, but more like I'm becoming him instead. Seriously, by this point more people know me as Xitel than by my real name. Not to say that it's a differently personality, I really do act the same way in real life that I do on here, but I find myself more and more getting used to being called "Xitel", "Xi", "Katsya", "Kats", or things like that, and less used to people using my real name. It's like, when someone said "Hey Andrew" a couple years ago, I'd hear it instantly, no matter how quiet, how drowned out, or who it was directed towards. Heck, I'd even hear it when there was noone else around. But nowadays when someone says it, I barely recognize they're talking to me. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2457 Joined: 21 Aug 2008    | I'll say it before and I'll say it again, Black Lincon is me, but he isn't. he's my personality, and my opinion, but he's more outspoken, he learns where I would only sit stubbornly refusing to listen, he's the good of me, but he isn't the bad. He's mysterious, but know, like the boogie man, there but not, here but there. In the shady corridors of the crowded city we call the internet, he delves deeper, he looks harder, he does not fear the unknown, but he looks forward to the new opinion he'll be exposed to today, he yearns to expand his mind, and then mine. I'm grateful for Black Lincon, without him I never would have met castro, never would have befriended G, never would have conversed with necro, and never would had a chat with Joe. Black Lincon is the good, but not the bad, the part of me that want's to learn, without the part that refuses, I define myself as a two face, one apprehensive, one black as night, but who also lights the way for the one who wouldn't go into the darkness. Boy, that was way to deep for me, and no, G and castro aren't members of this forum so don't get confused. |
Red Guard Posts: 6717 Joined: 24 Apr 2008 |
Incorrect, both of you. The RP section suffered a lapse as some of the older crew were pushed away by the increasingly hyperactive gaming and off-topic boards, but as we filter out new and active RP'ers from the constant stream of arrivals it's really taking off. There's new games every day and we even have more RP's on page one than forum games, now. All told, it's a good time to pick up a blaster. I suppose I feel the need to defend my home board, as it's where I retreat when one too many sexist or religious threads chokes the fun out of the escapist. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 4012 Joined: 17 Feb 2008 |
*Looks on forum games & RP board* Well I stand corrected, last time I checked there wasn't even a new! sign next to it. But I was really referring to things like this.
You know it's things like this, that start inter-board wars. |
Press Junketeer Posts: 468 Joined: 22 Apr 2009    | That guys said trogdor before me. :( |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2759 Joined: 3 Dec 2008   | I'm definitely way less of an idiot in person. But I kind of get what your dilemma is here. I don't think its schizophrenia though, myself being a diagnosed schizophrenic I don't think that developing an internet personality has anything to do with that. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 1340 Joined: 1 Jun 2008 |
It was in decline for a while but I'm hopeful about it's resurrection. In a tangential link to the topic, I think this effect might be more prominent in RP'ers as we regularly create characters that we have to sustain and write as. Not to say a non Rp'er couldn't develop my same problem but ... eh, it's some form of justification.
You know, before I had even finished the OP the thought occured to me "Dear god ... I bet this is what Ultrajoe feels like". You might be the most illustrative example of this situation on the site. It's only something I've been realizing recently and looking up Rex's astrological chart really centralized the issue in my mind. When I sit down on the computer and log into the Escapist I stop thinking like Monte and start thinking like Rex. It's ... odd. And the fact that Rex's astrological chart fits his posting habits almost perfectly makes it... odder.
Well, that's one vote for insanity. Can't really say I blame you. Oh, and a heart felt thanks to all those who have wished Rex a happy birthday. |
Red Guard Posts: 6717 Joined: 24 Apr 2008 |
I don't know, we get a few users every now and then who really get into the 'Ultra' frame of mind. Maxthereaper stands out as one of the more recent ones. The only thing that stopped me being an irritating jerk (and to some I still was/am) was the fact that RP had forged me into the kind of person who takes the premise 'How wud you survive the zombie apocalipse?' and writes 2000 words on how to use narrative awareness and a flaming bus to survive the Z hordes. I belive the overt use of Caps was in order, ah... I miss them. If any users older than me wander past, who was the verbose and self-validating user that came before me? Such cycles are eternal, and there's always one of us around. I'm just one who also happens to be as awesome as I claim to be. Which is Ultrawesome. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2141 Joined: 17 Apr 2009    | Aaand a happy B-day to you Rex. |
Red Guard  Posts: 5373 Joined: 14 Oct 2007 | I've had characters take lives of their own before, especially after about three years of toying with them. This was on another site. Here, however, I don't bother with an alternate personality. What you see is effectively what you get, and any distinction between Labyrinth and Tess is in the means of communication. Tess uses her voice and hands. Labyrinth uses pixels on a page. Congratulations, too! |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1632 Joined: 25 Jan 2009 | Are you people serious? Man I should quit the internet before any of that long-term damage is done to me... Let's leave this shithole Brotherofwill, shan't we? Ohhhmaaagaaawdd it's happeeeeninG! |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 4269 Joined: 13 Aug 2008   | One big happy birthday to the persona of Khedive Rex. As for your question
I do believe it does. One, The Iron Ninja, doesn't really have much in the way of RP history to call upon. But I've fleshed out the character enough in the forges of off-topic that I only half-arsedly (it is so a word) need to pay attention to how I write stuff now. As opposed to last year, when I would have put much thought to how I worded it (Yeah that's right, turns out the way I post used to be the result of actual thought, pretty pathetic really) The second would be Gerald In short, I use brackets way too much (and often in a confusing and inappropriate fashion)
I did a wee check. Seems to say that I talk too much all the way across the board, seems about right. Though I don't buy into those sorts of things.
As did I my good man. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 793 Joined: 8 May 2009  |
im not an RPer at all, however i find that in RPG games, (for example i play wow) my characters develop their own personality. for example my druid is very elitist. hard to impress, and generally very honest, a good person tho, she often helps others with quests and stuff she has no interest in, just to help out. Also a neat freak, she bathes more than id advise imo...but hey...she has a pool she always uses >.< |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 4457 Joined: 8 Jan 2009  | Megapenguinx is a mask I dawn to spread my own brand of justice upon this thing we call the internet. With Joe as my avatar I have roamed far and wide, from the newgrounds forums, to the escapist, to that pit of hell known only as 4chan, the penguin keeps moving on. He rights wrongs, helps those who need it, and is impartial to a majority of things. Although he is not me per say, he is my ideal and what I strive for as a human being. |
BANNED  Posts: 16327 Joined: 26 Dec 2008 | First off: Happy Birthday! Secondly: I've had characters who started out as basic copies of myself, and who grew to become entirely different people, yes. On the Escapist, though, I just act like myself. User was banned for: When will the beast just die? EDIT. (Permanent) |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2771 Joined: 1 May 2009    | Happy birthday to you. I used to RP quite a bit. And I'm a very different person on the internet and over MSN than I am in person, however. A lot more confident. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 4002 Joined: 18 Dec 2007 | Fire Daemon and I understand what you are saying and do agree with you. We find that you create a character in the form of a user profile, often without fully relizing it as that character becomes (or is already) part of yourself and vice versa. We both believe that everyone who posts for a while develops their character so much that they can become completely different to the person behind the monitor. It is inevitable for your online persona to take on a life of it's own, no matter how straight forward and truthful you are, and that's what makes forum going fun. Daemon, would you like to add anything? *Dragon Sounds* Yes, that's right. We don't believe that people should lie about themselves over the Internet. There is nothing wrong with having an online personality but you should be honest about who you are behind the avatar. Don't let the online personality over take your real personality to the degree in which you or others believe you act (or are) the same as the online personality. EDIT: *Angry Dragon Sounds* Yes, yes I'm getting around to it. Happy Birthday Khedive. You are now an official regular, wear that beer with pride. |
BANNED  Posts: 6237 Joined: 10 Aug 2008   | Oh, and happy birthday. As far as I can remember, it is not Gormourn's birthday. If either of us cared, we'd remember that it was probably in January or February, and Gormourn would be at least 2 or 3 years old now. Meh. It's not as much as a character, more of a part of my personality. Even though I do tend to develop personalities for characters I play in games, or just imagine for the sake of writing... Gormourn is hardly one of them. He's an idealized version of me, pretty much. Or perhaps a completely corrupt version of me, it's hard to see the difference. User was banned for: We need to cull the internet. (Permanent) |
On the Record Posts: 5594 Joined: 3 Mar 2008 |
I believe that's how you convinced me to join the ULTRA Party. As for the astrological chart, it scares me. It seems to indicate my persona with frightening (and correct) detail and then goes on to tell me that I am going to give rise to a Utopia. God help us all. |
Red Guard Posts: 5373 Joined: 14 Oct 2007 |
The one for me failed HARD at accuracy. It described me as "ambitious" and "hard working". |
Master Archivist  Posts: 9717 Joined: 5 Mar 2009   | Today is my un-birthday. |
On the Record Posts: 5594 Joined: 3 Mar 2008 |
If it's any consolation, you must have worked pretty hard (and been ambitious, considering we're from the internet) to set up Escapism. |
On the Record Posts: 5594 Joined: 3 Mar 2008 |
Why do you keep posting links to videos? EDIT: Well, it seems I won't get an answer now. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3545 Joined: 7 Oct 2008  |
Tyler Durden. But I suppose... Nah, I'm still me. I might have multiple personalities or some such, but I'm definitely still myself on the Internet. At least, I think I am. I do struggle with narcolepsy, though... Strange... I met an odd guy on the plane yesterday, too... Said he sells soap. |
Red Guard Posts: 5373 Joined: 14 Oct 2007 |
It was easier than you'd believe. "Hey, you guys want to be here, on this date? We'll shoot the shit and chill." |
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The weird thing is, it's not mine.
I remember signing up for this website a full one year ago on Jun first of 2008. I chose a user name, I chose an avatar, I posted on the Greatest Quotes thread and I was ready to roll. What I didn't predict was how much time I would spend here and how common that user name and avatar would become to me.
It's reached the point where I'm on here pretty much every day replying to threads or playing in the RP section and, in many way, I've started to think of Khedive Rex as his own person. Sure, we agree on all the important issues, but our way of approaching topics is very different (I'm very apathetic while Rex tends to be very methodical about proving his point), we sound very different (Rex is clear and straightforward while I'm theatrical and ... well zany) and even our personalities differ (Rex tends to care more deeply about issues than me and I'm more patient than him). We behave differently, we react to things differently, there are times when we even think differently.
I may be the one writing for Khedive Rex, but I don't feel like Khedive Rex. That name and Protoman avatar may as well be a seperate entity.
About a week ago it occurred to me that Rex's birthday was today. Being the odd sort that I am (and having nothing else to do for about an hour) I looked up Khedive Rex's astrological chart. He's a Gemini with Saturn and Mars on opposite sides of the Ascendent and Sun conjunct Mercury. Without going into too much explination, this exactly describes the sort of personality Rex maintains. The freaky thing is, it doesn't really describe me. At all.
So, my question: if you devote enough time and energy into a character does it begin to take on a life of it's own, or are these the signs of early onset schizophrenia? How closely do you feel your actual personality fits with your avatar's? Anyone else feel like a good friend is writing their posts while they're sort of editing?
Perhaps most interestingly of all, try looking at your avatar's astrological chart to see if it fits his/her posting habits. I was a little freaked when mine did. (but please don't turn this thread into a debate about astrology. If you don't believe in that sort of thing then feel free not to do this part.)
Anyway, Rex has been on the Escapist for a full year today. It's his birthday. Feel free to wish him a happy one.
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