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Silas (son of Silas):
I've been a member of various forums for years, but the very first one I joined was a forum for fans of British horror films that I stumbled upon whilst stuck in bed with a bad back watching And now the Screaming Starts. One of the characters was called Silas the wood cutter and he says the line "My name is Silas, son of Silas" So that's the name I chose and it stuck.
The photo in the avatar really is me. I took it with my camera phone then tweaked it on the PC to be a little more suitable for a horror forum.
The name and the photo have stuck, so now I'm Silas on boating forums, a Whisky (no 'e' despite what the blasted spell check thinks, I'm British) forum, an MG owners forum, a pre-war car owners forum, a welding forum the list goes on...
So... the point of this thread is for you to maybe tell the story (if there is one) behind your online name and avatar, or maybe how/why you chose it. For those more daring maybe reveal who the 'real person' is behind the identity? Anyone willing to 'step up?'
Behind the creepy green photo and the odd name, my real name is Iain and I really look like this:
Malenko:
name comes from Dean Malenko the wrassler' not Milenko the homoclown rapper from ICP. My avatar picture changes on the regular, right now its Jago from KI2 because Im working on my KI2MAME, it used to be the red ring'ed xbox360 elite and before that I think it was my nephews playing my UMK3 machine
Mauzy:
"Mauzy" is my last name (actually pronounced Mo-Zay). As for my avatar, it changes every few months. At one point I had a screen grab of my name and online status (only one person noticed something was weird), but that wouldn't match the new theme. My current is a character in the style of the Fallout 3 art. The pic is from the FalloutWiki.
drventure:
I just settled on Dr Venture because
1) the show is cool (though it's gotten particularly odd this season)
2) The music is done by JG Thirlwell, otherwise know as Clint Ruin, etc etc and the man behind "Scraping Foetus Off the Wheel"....
....Halo Flaming Lead.... Great song!
3) that montage skull rocks
4) he can get away with wearing a full on 70's jumpsuit
I'd considered a variety of steampunk-esque nom de plumes, and almost went with "Dr Thadeus Pennywhistle and his "The Electro-Transformative Perceptuo-Emulatron", but decided the better of it and chose "The No18 Arqadium" instead.
Ond:
My original avatar was taken from a scene in A Scanner Darkly, it's actually Robert Downey Jr in the image playing a real oddball in that film. I'm big fan of the author of the book the film is based on (Philip K Dick) and of hacked and modded gizmos, PCs, electronics and retro stuff (see Brazil, Blade Runner other similar Sci-Fi films featuring resurrected or retro hardware for examples of that).
no longer used:
I'm messing with some new renderings based on my face which will form my new avatar (WIP). Ond is simply a phonetic abbreviation nickname of my real name (Andre).
I'm a keen movie buff and have a moderate collection including Brit horror - mainly Hammer stuff. Fav female vampires - Ingrid Pitt and Yutte Stensgaard (who else could compete with those two??? ;D)
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