You mean using my first name as my user name and my last name as my password is WRONG??

I'd also say that the "roleplaying" part of MMORPG seems like just a small niche community. The majority of players do not really 'role play' their character.

For me at least, it's not really an 'alternative world' at all. It's a way to contact and play with about 24 people that, for the most part, I've been playing and chatting with for nearly 6 years now. I know most guildies by their first names, instead of whatever name the character has they are playing at this moment.

But yeah, of course it's a form of massive escapism. None of the things we do matter. But raiding for 4-5 hours in a night does keep real life away for a bit. But I guess that also applies to watching America's Got Talent or reading a book.

At this point, having W for a middle initial is almost as unfashionable as having the first name Adolf.

Hi, I'm Gabe_B, so named because my first name is Gabe and my surname begins with a B. I'm creative like that. You can expect other creative gems from me, like taking other's pieces of videographic art and submitting it here to express my own sense of self.
I'm an English teacher in Korea, and like most of my kind I drink too much and have bandwidth to spare. I love astronomy, evolutionary psych, clever people, nerdy girls with good bodies, and interesting videos about religions.
I live on the 30th floor of a 2 year old apartment building in Seoul with a nameless cat and a Californian girl. I majored in Religion and Film for my BA and think The Sift is one of the greatest things on the net.

That's why he creeps you out? The man's first name is plural for crying out loud! I never trust a man with two first names, but this guy's not limiting himself to two. God knows how many Rogers there are.>> ^lucky760:
People who speak with their eyes closed like that creep me out. It also makes me want to jump away and duck behind some furniture so the next time their eyes open they'll think I disappeared.

Hey, just saw your comment on a sift of mine - good form, very funny. John had a way with words, didn't he?

In reply to this comment by bananafone:
expecting someone to know who someone is by just referring to their first name and then calling them an idiot when they don't know who it is... is ridiculous.

I'll let John sum it up for me: "Shut the fuck up."

expecting someone to know who someone is by just referring to their first name and then calling them an idiot when they don't know who it is... is ridiculous.

I'll let John sum it up for me: "Shut the fuck up."

you are omitting a strong pretentious odor. Ya, I know who Bill Hicks is. Sorry if i didnt catch that in your obscure reference where you named him by first name.......which just so happens to be a very common name. While Bill Hicks may be hilarious, his understanding of the military is juvenile at best. I would take what he says about the inner workings of the military with a grain of salt and a shot of penicillin, most especially considering he's served all of zero days in said military.

At least youre doin a stand up job of painting yourself as the narrow-minded, predisposition-ed, fucktard that you are =P

I can just see that happening, putting some cutsey name to him, combining his first name with his "profession" or the one thing that describes him in a simplistic, demeaning manner.

Man, I'm getting tired of living in bizzaro world.

In reply to this comment by JiggaJonson:
I was thinking the same thing, we'll see in a week if they start saying "And I know a man, lets call him 'Bob the Bed Confined.'"

In reply to this comment by brycewi19:
Just WATCH the Republicans use this as propaganda against socialize medicine.

Her defensiveness aside, anybody else love the fact that her first name is "O'RLY?!"

>> ^Farhad2000:
It's Photoshop.


And what's her first name?

and now a story-

When I was in boot camp there were 2 guys named Smith. One of African heritage, the other of European. So, since people in boot were busy enough, they did not bother to learn the Smiths first names and they just called the "black smith" (which is also funny in another way, but that seemed lost on the group) and "white smith". This offended some of the guys and to show their offense they decided it was necessary to prefix everyone's name with their skin tone. Since their were many of us and we were from many different back grounds, it turned out their were a myriad of colors to go around. I was Olive Grey Gaz, my best friend in the group was dirty tan Ghazal, another was chalk white Stubbs, and yet another was pinkish Sheer. I thought it was quite illuminating to hear each and every persons EXACT skin tone (as is it was interpreted by a bunch of young guys) attached to them as a label. To me, it really pin pointed how stupid the whole color thing is. Nearly everyone is a different color and it really does not matter what that color is.

I've always found these guys to be some of the most amazing creatures in the ocean!
The ocean and it's wonders amaze me so much I named my daughter after it. (Ocean-Brae is her first name - no kidding)

Granted, I just promoted this and I understand this site has a very heavy atheist user base. Actually, it's the promoted, encouraged and abject hatred of anyone who is religious at all that has kept me away from here. I really don't argue religion, especially here. But I will just post my opinion on the content of this very short video since I happened by it. And I'm going to break it down as it happens.

The question in the beginning seems to be "Are you a religious man?" (when considering the wonders of nature etc). He answers "no". She then asks if it (again his experience with nature) has any philosophical meaning to him and he begins by telling her she hadn't asked him that. When, in fact, that's the question she's now actually asking. But he reveals that he has a particular problem with Christianity even though it was never specifically brought up. If the question is "How does your extensive background in observing nature impact your philosophical view of the world?" and the answer begins with "Well, I don't like Christianity". Then I think that's a problem. There's a skewed view coming from somewhere else that has nothing to do with the question being asked at all.

Then we go into this dramatically told story of the boy with a worm eating his eye. And he leans forward and thrusts this bullshit out trying to force it down her throat into meaning something. But it doesn't. I can tell you all sorts of stories. I know someone who was pushed in front of a subway train. Dead. There was one guy I walked passed in an alley that was being beaten to death with metal garbage cans. I personally have been shot at, electrocuted, stabbed, almost drowned under ice, poisoned, stitched up to the point where I was on a first name basis in the emergency room, fuck .. I should be a super hero .. or at least God's enemy number 1 .. but I don't think it works that way. Bad things happen to all kinds of people. It's a sad argument to say God doesn't exist because human suffering does.

In any event, this worm feeds on other things besides the human eye. Obviously. Or it would be extinct or we'd all be fucking blind. So this worm was not "made by God" to devour some child's eyeball. The same way HIV was not created by God to destroy the gays. It's nature. And someone like Attenborough should know that nature takes it's course without discrimination. It is VERY frustrating to hear him say "you believe it was created by God ... that God said "I will make a worm that can only live by eating/boring people's eyes". Even if you are a hardcore atheist this is utter shit.

He caps off his personal hatred of Christianity with "the Christian idea of a God who cares for each of us". And that the eyeball eating worm is incompatible with that. Well personally, I think his argument is already moot just from what I've said above but there is nothing ... regardless of whatever magic gumdrop land concept of Christianity that he has .. that says that people who follow the faith won't suffer.

If anything, everything about it tells you it is the path to more suffering.

In short, no chtierna. No, it wasn't Satan, it wasn't a punishment and no it wasn't some decree of God beyond our comprehension. The worm ate the eye the same way you eat the cow. Or the carrot if you're vegetarian. Or the way I eat my celery out of bloody mary most sunday mornings.

lol, for a while there i was thinking... they thought Hitler was a first name.

Kids seem healthy but dont let the baby drink Coca-Cola, please, state caretaker? or i wont mind if they go back with cletus and camilla there