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[Vector]

9_9

I'm more than a decade older than you. No, I'm not a gaymer. I'm a gold star bisexual

[Rolan7]

Haha, I like that term!  Gold star bisexual gang

[Kagus]

Years ago, in ages past, I spent a fair amount of time in Gmod (before there was a 9 to be Gmod 9). There, I ended up downloading a model pack from one of my favorite games at the time, namely Dark Messiah of Might and Magic (colloquially known as "The Adventures of Sir Kicksalot Deathboot in the Land of Conveniently-Placed Spike Traps"), and started going to town. I was mucking around with the goblin model, having always had a certain affection for goblinoids, when I began messing with the facial expression sliders.

Whereupon I found that with just a couple sliders, you could twist the goblin's face into this ridiculous expression of psychotic delight that somehow just instantly struck a chord with me. I immediately changed my moniker in most games to CrazyGoblin (having previously used a variety of names, including such classics as Sir Pippin the Slightly Daft), and that became my online persona for a number of years.

Then I ended up making friends while playing the HL2 mod Zombie Master (RIP, you were a glorious and utterly janky masterpiece), including one particular weirdo who insisted that I try out Dwarf Fortress.

So after some coaxing, I gave it a shot (this was the last 2D version, I believe), enjoyed it, and let myself get talked into joining the forums here. I decided I should probably spruce up my name a bit for the occasion, especially seeing as I wasn't expecting to stay here long, and tried translating my usual name into Dwarvish.

However, at the time, none of the ingame languages had words for each other... So there was no "Goblin" to go along with the Crazy. I decided to compromise, and instead made my name be just the word "Crazy", but translated into Goblintongue. That word is Kagus.


...and then like a couple years later or so I discovered that it's also the plural term for a particular Japanese heron, so there's that. Also this forum is the one singular forum that I have actually remained active in, for well over a decade now, so I guess my temporary stay ended up being a bit longer than expected.

[Magmacube_tr]

Kagus lore got me like:

[None]

Wanting for a username that I wouldn't use anywhere else on the internet and with just enough computer knowledge to be annoying, I set eyes on the term for a number used only once in key cryptography. One tragically uncomfortable cultural collision later, I'm much happier as None. 'Null' would've been good too, but I was like 5% worried I'd break a database or something.

"None" is also just perfectly inconvenient to go searching for.

[TD1]

'Nobody' would have been better, coulda held hand with your mate Odysseus 'n' peeved off a one-eyed giant rather than some tacky database, but no you had to peeve nerds rather than strike well the sounding furrows and strive with gods, leaving scepter and isle in the safe keeping of this, your son, Telemachus, while you bathe in blood of your enemies and the baths of all the western stars, probably somewhere near the hyades but who knows, also hey do you have any goat's blood I need to see a spook my ankle's achille-ing me

Every nobody I know of has been a somebody
just like every know-nothing has been at the socratic apex and been a know-something

Layered within every word is its inverse - we can only know what is 'light' because we know what is 'dark,' within the statement 'we condemn apartheid' is 'hey we have apartheid,' contained within None is Some and he's a bastard because frankly he probably contributed something to apartheid.




Edit: I'm gonna call this experiment in stream-of-consciousness writing a horrifying success.
My apologies that you were the focus, None 

[Ziusudra]

 

Somebody was Nobody long ago.

[None]

I'll be sure to give Some an earful for being a bastard, cheers! I'll direct him to get himself to a None-ery.

[Lidku]

Is it bad that whenever I start a writing project, I eventually get bored of it and start a whole new one? I've got like 19+ fanfiction stories started, but I haven't finished any of them. 

[Magmacube_tr]

No.

#Relatable

[TD1]

It's bad by most metrics. You won't be as good at writing late-stage pieces, the story will remain incomplete, etc.

It's not-bad if you're writing for the craic and the above doesn't concern you.

[hector13]

Just write the end of stories starting in media res.

[MrRoboto75]

Steven King had shit endings and they still let him write a morbillion things.  Anything's possible!

[Kagus]

S'truth, man can't finish a story to save his life.

[scriver]

He's secretly the author of the Neverending Story