ow, thanks for explaining this Aristharus.

You spelled my name right! :shock: No problem, cool that the fact that I've been playing Nethack since I was about 6 can be of help to someone...

hehehe Did you went to the con-*test*-('")s limited in about one month time on some site? You spelled my name right! :shock: Yeah. My pseudo's often skrik. People 've got trouble to spell it too. So i guess i am immunised against weird names.

Aristharus, your name looks Greek. No, literally. Maybe with a little changes it'd be even more greek, but... Eh. What do I know. I've just been playing waaaay too much Rome: Total War. :P

I really have no idea what is should look like. It has nothing to do with my real name or really anything else. I just made it up some 5 years ago for some game, and unimaginative as I am, I've been using it everywhere since. It looks a bit like Aristotle, though, so it probably is at least somewhat greek-ish. Damn you people, I was just supposed to make that one post about Nethack and then vanish. Looks like I've become the member of one more forum then.. Welcome to the forum, me.

Yep. We do that to people. Yeah, if your name was Aristitharus, or Aristarithus or something... I dunno. Go greek!

Har har, I'm greek, but my name has nothing to do with anything, if you want to know where my name came from, and it hasn't been anounced on this forum yet, cause I have horrible memory, just ask.

It has been announced, but i have terrible memory too so you can say it again.

It's actually a short story, but whatever. I was playing this MUD, and I was gonna use my typical name "Some Guy" which apperantly wasn't fantasy-ish enough, so someone suggested Somagu, which sounded close to Some Guy, and I liked the name, so I kept it. Not too exciting. >_>

I usually just invent a new name whenever I want to do something on a new Internet site, unless for some reason I want to be recognized as the same person... and I picked Z probably just because it was short. Interestingly, before IVAN I did use (unregistered) "Z" to post several messages on another forum, and I think both Somagu and Atomic are registered there under another names.

Do you remember which forum? It could be entirely possible.

The only forums I've been to recently were this one and Feather O'Malley's House o' Grog. Other possibilities where I used other handles were the ADOM hall of fame forum (I was Duke Ravage) and the ToS forum before they became commercial (I was Firestorm).

I'm the only chaostrom as far as I know 8) At least, if you google chaostrom it's all me except for that last one... Something about mechanics, and I didn't know about that until later. I came up with chaostrom independently.

Heh I think I found a French Algoblin... I'm not original anymore.