Im to lazy to make account here

I take the game too srsly and rage a lot.

why so serious?

Explained it in an earlier thread: here.

twofour heuheuehuehe

hue

I love yellow balls

I lived in China, I know the feeling

: D

In the arcades in the 80's/90's you only used to have 3 initials so that was the day before most people used aliases, so it was mostly the initials of your name, or the first 3 letters of your first name.

When online gaming got big (and I was late to it) character limit were much longer and not really your real name, and now JAM meant the stuff you ate, so I added "erio" after it as that was the surname of the local arcade owner was called valerio, and I kinda did it as I got a job with games due to the arcade games at his arcade and at the time could not think of anything else, and it just stuck.

SOURCE1
http://companycheck.co.uk/director/901491538

SOURCE2
http://www.localdatasearch.com/swansea/city_c...l-12394397

I never felt comfy using an alias, I always felt it was nerdy to do but not using one just looked lame, that's why I think both aspects of my "alias" are not really made up, they are something I felt forced to pick hence the link to the real world.

If you're one of those weird fucks who named himself after some fucked up race in everquest or some shit, I don't think we would get on.

yeah.. that's not exactly the kind of information that warrants sources. DAT BAFTA THO HUEHUEHUEUHEHUEHEUHEUHEUHEUHEUHEUHEUHEUHEUHEUHEUHEUHEUEHUHEUHEUHEUHEUHEUHEUHEUHE

it is my real name and i am not very creative when thinking of cool names so i just used this.

#coolstorysis

in the '90 when we had the first doping scandals in cycling there was a funny song about epo from some comedians. I'm not sure how I came to use it as an alias, but i thinks that's where the idea originated in my head. I use another one today though, but that's a joke nick, supposed not to be taken serious. I stole that one though. I really should use my real alias as on this site for gaming.

My brother got his steam account stolen and I recovered it for myself. This was the name it had when I got it back and I was too lazy to change it.

It's elegant, trolly, and most people just call me queer.

Before that I went by Gogeta since the QuakeWorld TF days. Most of my e-buddies will call me Gogs (even to my mom when I'm not home) irl.

qr=cooller
Doom 8 confirmed

I don't get it :<

Thx for the compliment?

yes, compliment - simple nickname and makes a reference with quake God. What more you can dream for? + doom8 confirmed.

Had lots of alias's some games back in the day pretty much expected you to make multiple character names. For fps games I just wanted a random name other than dale, so I hit the keyboard and JK came out, then after 2/3 years? realized it was fairly common especially with asians and a lot of people thought it meant "Just kidding" or that it was trolly. So I wanted a more uncommon name that represented computers, canada and my personality to some extent so it originally was actually C02Zen. That lasted a about day(got a screenshot in cs1.6 somewhere of it) but it didn't feel/look right, so I then resorted to one of my backups "ChillOut". I like the subtle in/out (on/off) Chillin/Chillout joke. Ironically ChillOut is also fairly common, as its taken on all other sites I try to register it on; and also people might think it is trolly as well lol. So I didn't really solve the original problem's, o well

Trolly names are the best.

I've been registered as turbo, wallflower, and wiggles at various sites. No matter what persona I put on, people get pissed.

ChillOut is great if you use it correctly.

the best band in existence

Entirely debatable.


@ChillOut, start taking notes.

nirvana, placebo, pearl jam, nin, velvet underground, radiohead

not rush.they silly.

none of those

ALL of those!

tyou say yours now i said mine teehhee!

i fight you in battle of bands music listen, wimp!

Give me a list of criteria I need to follow to rate a band the "best."

1. doesn't suck


2. is better than what i listen

3. no beatles. beatles suck.

Is that really it? That would mean there are hundreds of the best band ever. Although I can probably count them all one one hand, the Beatles do have some good songs.

3. no beatles. beatles suck.

:(((

The fact that so many books still name the Beatles "the greatest or most significant or most influential" rock band ever only tells you how far rock music still is from becoming a serious art. Jazz critics have long recognized that the greatest jazz musicians of all times are Duke Ellington and John Coltrane, who were not the most famous or richest or best sellers of their times, let alone of all times. Classical critics rank the highly controversial Beethoven over classical musicians who were highly popular in courts around Europe. Rock critics are still blinded by commercial success: the Beatles sold more than anyone else (not true, by the way), therefore they must have been the greatest. Jazz critics grow up listening to a lot of jazz music of the past, classical critics grow up listening to a lot of classical music of the past. Rock critics are often totally ignorant of the rock music of the past, they barely know the best sellers. No wonder they will think that the Beatles did anything worth of being saved.

Scaruffi is a Quaker confirmed

The media circus, such as VH1 documentaries, continue to throw The Beatles, Pink Floyd, and Led Zeppelin as the most innovative and influential bands. It's a perpetual machine designed to tell people what they want to hear to make them feel good so that they keep watching.

you stated nirvana. you are retarded and I'm going to ignore your opinion for the rest of the time I browse this website.

you named yourself after terrible band that sound like a yeast infection xD

hey tbh i don't know much of their songs but i like to find new music, which are some of their best?

My favorites are YYZ and Natural Science.

"A Farewell to Kings" and "Permanent Waves" are their best albums IMO.

Gnr?

How does Placebo get in there?

Skinny Puppy, Front Line Assembly, Ministry, Machines of Loving Grace, Chemlab,

Sounds like we're both stuck in the 90s, but you're stuck in the wrong 90s hehe.
Your 90s was unwell. Get well soon.

R U S H
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... witch hunt. \o/

so he meant his nick hex converted or something? fill me in, but yes, RUSH.

from "Who's your daddy?"

I was having a conversation with someone about human nature, and I said that we seem to be half chimp/animal/whatever and half something else.

It got inconvenient using the term 'something else' so a random word was suggested: 'lorfa'.

Final Fantasy 10. Best game ever)

does it have strefe jumping?

I don't know. Never really played final fantasy :O


:

no, ff6

FFVIII. And VII.

i didnt play 8. its the one with squall, right?

and while i appreciate ff7 and how it made FF known to wide audience as a psx system seller, it wasnt as good as ff6. which fucking kicks ass with the avi options

Yeah, it's Squallish.

The most "living" characters in any FF. Play it, dude.

VII is a masterpiece. I love the philosophical references and just the overall character of the game. Plus it was the first proper game I played on a computer/console :)

I really liked FFX.

FFX-2 however pretty much told me that the square-enix merger was to forever ruin the franchise.

The one i usually have were already taken so i just made a shit name up and then i changed to an even shittier and stuck with it.

I was thinking about naming myself BalinStalin or Adolf Hitscan. But took Laim as all my jokes are lame as fuck.

ADOLF HITSCAN : DDD

The ultimate +forward lg abuser.

I thought that he's the ultimate +back camp-in-a-corner railwhore. :<

"Klingsor's Last Summer" is the name of some bourgeois novel I didn't bother to read - I just wanted a unique nickname, so I chose kL1ngsor; by the time fox became fojji and toxic became toxjc I added the "j" to look more swedish and therefore more menacing.

I use to really like Allen Iverson

lol at you

all this meat that I have raged off servers in here....adorable and didn't read why you chose your meatball names

schizm sound like jizm and that is your favourite drink.

zingm

dog + ja

lol sophia is blazing mad

http://www.skulduggerypleasant.com/ :D

hitler

me too! <3

k, gonna give story here.
playing a friend in school when 8 years old or smt, put marshmallows in mouth and say funnybunny, the one who could have the most marshmallows in his mouth and still say it wins. a friend of mine stuck three times on funny-BUH, funny-BEH, funny,BUH. so funnyb. I never nicknamed funnybunny and shortened it.

funnybeaver

xouchocase

uuuaaaaaa - Sound of voiding keel ))

Needed to think of a username for a random forum and I happened to be listening to this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noqMfTRKNlo so I just typed in thebigpill. Later I thought that name was silly and since people were calling me Pill anyway I just shortened it. The underscore is because Pill was already taken in ql and I started to like the way Pill_ looks.

I did the same with kANiN, kanin was taken in ql so i took kANiN_, then used the underscore everywhere, irc, homepages, yeah. made it a part of it.

conclusion: i like the way you think.

i started playing q2 in 98/99 and watched all the demos i could find from immortal and makaveli.

and man, i wanted a 8 letter nickname too, stupid as that might sound =)

so i was scrolling through a dictionary (true story) and i came across Fugitive and decided that was going to be it =)

i've been aliassing my whole life tho, so ive used tons and tons of nicknames, but in the end, i still get back to Fugitive

back in the days me and my mates were fascinated with 2 things: call of duty1 and bleach anime. so we made "Soul Society" clan, and we all had nicknames from anime. I took hitsuguya coz he fucking rox.

later when i switched to ET, i came to conclusion its too long, and cut second half off. as a result im known as hitsu.

ah, good old days <3

<3

on my defense: i was 14!

wait you're not 14 any more? lol

nope, 13 atm

That was one and a half years ago.

Tell me about it. My first e-mail was "motomiya" from a Digimon character. I was so ashamed about it a year later that when people asked what did it mean, I said that it was Japanese footballer Miyamoto's name shuffled around because that sounded slightly less gay. I never used that e-mail afterwards but my MSN account was registered with it and I had a huge friendlist so I was lazy to make a new one.

belive it or not, there are people at my year who use [email protected] email when sending projects to out lecturers and master degree aplications :X

dumb fucks.

I talked to one guy who had been a boss of some kind in a company. One of hes employees was supposed to send him a e-mail with something job related. She sent it from a account named something like [email protected]. He wasn't to pleased with that.

I think its a result of losing the feeling of job/studies importance. Our world gets more and more liberal. I've recently had a talk with one of my uni mates about exam dress code. Few years ago it was just impossible to not wear a suit when taking exam, while nowadays people get in with shirt and jeans and think they are dressed well enough.

I dont want to live on this planet anymore.

Why the fuck would you need to dress up for an exam? What does matter, appearance or knowledge? You're an idiot if you think dress code for exams is a good thing. It serves literally no purpose, it's just an annoying, pointless thing.

What matters? Both.

Would you got to a job interview dressed up in sport wear? After all all that matter are your qualifications, not your appearance.

But with proper cloths you show you care and your respect. Thats why you're ought to dress up properly.


If you dont understand it, then how old are you? 10?

How does appearance matter on an exam? You're not trying to make an impression. You arrive, you do the exam based on your knowledge, you leave, then someone who don't even know who you are evaluates it.

This is 2014, not 1914.

then someone who don't even know who you are evaluates it

well, if ur this kind of student, then yeah fuck it. not like you're going to end up in job other than macdonalds.

I don't know how they do it in your country, but here each student is given a number so the evaluators don't know who they are evaluating (no bias), alas, they don't know who you are. Besides, no, the person who evaluated my last exams probably don't know who I am. I have a few lecturers who is adressing something to over 300 students and you claim you can only succeed if you know the guy?

Your performance isn't based on your appearance and if anyone is taking your appearance into account, they're being unjust and biased. Considering my evaluator doesn't even know what I wore to the exam, it doesn't even make any sense to suit up anyway.

you did not understand a word from my previous post, which only proves you will end in mcd.

Right. I'm stupid and I should just give up university. I can't get anything better than a job at McDonalds, aye? You have such a great insight into my personal life. Tell me more.

Or how about instead of being vague and annoying, you can elaborate if you claim I didn't understand a word of your post?

nope, ill be a dick. figure it out.

Nah, I'll just assume you're spewing bullshit.

ok, just remember - no fries to my burger

Laki, my man, if you visit this place regularly, you should really know better than to expect a point by point discussion with Hitsu. :D

Well, I do now. Thanks for the heads up though! :p

I show my respect by knowing the material. Because that means I actually spent time studying.

Job interviews are a different thing. For one, a teacher is not looking to hire you. Two, it depends on the job: for many jobs you have to dress up everyday (and not just for the interview). In university, you don't. See, I certainly wouldn't go in a suit for a McDonald's job interview.

I show my respect by knowing the material. Because that means I actually spent time studying.

well, thats why you got to school. to study. its not respect. its your duty.

im quite sure you wouldnt even get the chance to see the interviewer if you werent dressed properly. why waste his time?

Then again, that might just get you hired. Because you'll stand out. This is if you're actually smart and qualified for the job. See if you take into consideration that there are many smart and qualified people applying for the same position, there's little chance they'll choose you. But if you stand out somehow, then they will surely remember you. You can't be sure every job interviewer is a conservative fuck who would immediately disregard you because of your dress. Especially if the said job is not a "display job" where you would need to wear suit everyday.

following your logic, we should all tatoo our faces. to get distinctive.

but thats not valid logic. by wearing a suit, you show you care.

That's not so simple. Who wears tattoos on their face? Mostly (!) criminals, outlaws, weirdos. You not necessarily wanna hire those.
Who wears normal clothes to a job interview? Either geniuses or potheads. Now potheads you wouldn't hire, but geniuses? Sure. They might have slight autism, but that's just even better. They won't care about social stuff, only work.

I also heard for example that printing your CV on colored paper raises your chance of getting hired. Simply because of the same logic: they will remember you. Now this only works until there are enough sheeps/brainwashed/uncreative people who turn in the usual white one, written in some "official" format they downloaded at some site, because they weren't smart enough to create one on their own.

well, gl in the future.

Thanks, but I won't need it. Because as you also noticed, the world is growing more liberal each day. ;)

I didn't even know there were places on Earth where people wore non-normal clothes for exams. I gotta say I can't get the logic behind that. Unless you're talking about oral exams?

all kind of exams.

You mean like wearing a zoot (tie included) to take a written exam? That's Weird.

never wore a suit while taking exams (engineering).
what are you studying?

quality management.

Apparently, he's stuck in the early 20th century.

is that hitsu?

yes

And Ozymandias because of Watchmen?

lol peope remember? :D yeah it was from watchmen.

i think i also used N0LifeKing, my et pub fakenick, as a username on esr.

Everyone here having a good story about their nicks and only thing I did with my nick was adding a T in front of my real name -> talex.

Oh poor me and my imagination =(

but your name has an x in it, you are badass by default :)

i'm afraid it was your subconscious giving your nickname. talex is a company manufacturing office supplies like pens and folders, and they are pretty common in finnish schools. my friend used to use that nickname when we were playing "liero" in highschool.

afterwards thinking of that you may be right, I mean I have had some products from them as well :)

I don't wash.

It's funny that Toilet_paper plussed this post. I guess it likes nasty stuff by nature.

flynnt is short for corporal flynn taggart, who is the main character in the first doom novel by dafydd ab hugh and brad linaweaver. it's also the worst book ever written.

http://www.amazon.com/Knee-Deep-Dead-Doom-Boo...n+the+dead

man you can get it used for a nickel!

it's my middle name and it tends to not be already taken

the pronouncuation of how you say byce in swedish means poo.

yummy

i know

I originally started gaming on The ImagiNation Network (INN) which was also known as "The Sierra Network." I played the flight sim, Red Baron II and my nickname was Swoop.

After that I got Doom2 and I started playing on DWANGO, there was this Nike shoe out at the time called the NDestrukt. I liked the way destrukt sounded and I used it as my name.
shoe: http://www.ebay.com/itm/NIKE-AIR-MAX-SHAKE-EV...1113386384


Later on in UT99, when I wanted to just relax and play Unreal Tournament Rocket Arena, I would use the alias dkt. People eventually figured out who I was and the alias just stuck, which it also later became my brand name.

Don't forget

"THE DKT"

That's one ugly-ass shoe though.

yes, the shoe left something to be desired.

Maybe you're not ready for the shoe, in the future everyone will be wearing these... or not lol

Played NHL 98 or 99(?) on playstation at a friends house and you could choose what the announcer would say if you scored.. "Animal scores!" But people started calling my ani instead so changed pretty quick (after like 2-3 years...).

Found out in 2009, when i saw Star wars on tv, that Anakin was called ani and that's why people always ask if i'm (EYE etc)anakin :£.

My name is Cat and I added the "ffs" at the end because I'm tired of explaining that my name is Cat when they dont believe it the first time I say it. *Reeoow*

i have no idea

Best reason so far.

My real name. Unique as it is.

cool people have a z in their name

Stole it from some poor sap back in what I think was 2001 or 2002. Kept it, though I'd toy with a new name for a few weeks every other year.

It needs to go, and I've a few new ones in mind. Just need to get back to gaming, first.

Got the internet sometime around 1996-9 and had recently watched the film "hackers". me and a friend LAN'd up shortly after and decided we needed aliases to begin our adventure into hacking. I chose the name "MeLTeDFlaME" and he chose "hacwa - Hacking And Cracking With Attitude". His is much cooler, i know.

2weeks later we installed Quake2 and found IRC. Adventure over.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackers_(film)

I saw it somewhere in 99/2000 and took it. Some clan found my old nickname "lame", which was MACSrPOO, a Destruction Derby 2 cheat code. So they decided I'd be nicknamed TrPpNpOpE. I didn't feel much for this retard name so I suggested !nFerNo and it has stuck since.

If you want another cheatcode for a PSX game, try 1GOTP1NK8CIDBOOTSON in Alien Trilogy.

Object i insert in anus

rofl

: D

YELLow & blACK, cba to explain and no, I'm not half chinese/african :>

cba to explain

that was the point of this thread, no?

Hees bussy mekin meps!

Ok ok... I've been a raver in the 90's and there was this yellow & black barrier tape which was kinda trendy at that time. Thats it :D

Have some flashbacks, sir

:D

You are bumblebee?

bvb? :p

Founding king of my home City, York .

Vlad Tepes

''Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water. Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless — like water. Now you put water in a cup, it becomes the cup; You put water into a bottle it becomes the bottle; You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.'' - Bruce Lee

Water can change the world. I'm myself a martial artist and polymath. I also chose Tidal Blast in contrast to Quake.

Jack of all trades master of none.

"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."

Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love (1973)

That's fine if you're a pig farmer in some remote region with a commodore 64, but reach for the sky!

“Jack of all trades, master of none, though oftentimes better than master of one.”

Get this into your head. In the video games industry, a generalist isn't someone who knows stuff and sucks at everything. It's someone who can perform on a professional level in many fields. Who the hell would hire someone who can't do shit? Your Jack of All trades, master of none is fairly outdated and innacurate. It just shows how ignorant your are on the subject.

The time it takes to master something new is approximately 3 years. While a specialist practice one field for 10 years, the polymath masters 3 and learns a 4th one. Big game studios want specialist, because they want to pay you less. They are looking for good little soldiers, in other words... insects.

Once someone mastered one field, it's always easier to master another as he starts to perceive the same mechanics behind life that are found behind everything. The more one progresses, the more all things start to look alike. To specialize is just the first step, the second one is to become a polymath.

Specialists are terrible at solving problems. Polymaths are experts at solving problems. Game development is all about problem solving.

If you just look at 3D artists, the best ones are highly technical, they have a vast knowledge and too the time to both learn and master different softwares such as Substance Designer, CrazyBump, xNormals, 3Dcoat, Substance Painter, Shaders creation (coding or node-based editor), etc. Those polymaths have the edge because they have more tools in their arsenal to solve problems and reach their goals faster and more efficiently.

Same thing for UFC champions such as Anderson Silva or GSP, they are both excellent fighters in standup, but they also perform just as well on the ground or any other situations. They are polymaths.

To specialize is just the first baby step. Once you mastered one field, then you can become a polymath and add new skills to your belt.

"Specialists are terrible at solving problems. Polymaths are experts at solving problems. Game development is all about problem solving."

Specialists are experts at solving high level problems in specific areas.

Polymaths, are experts are solving low-mid level problems across a wider area of topics, usually because they are incapable of specialising in specific areas.

Specialists do not need to wander into other areas because they excel in the areas generalists are incapable of going.

Go get a 1000 junior school math teachers, I bet their combined intelligence in the field of math does not come close to a single person who teaches math at MIT assuming a high end math question is asked.

So your claim is entirely based on the TYPE of problem and the COMPLEXITY of that problem. Of which you seldom describe.

Most people involved in producing high quality work would agree that employing a bunch of specialists in specific areas is far superior to employing a bunch of polymaths/generalists. Then you don't need generalists, you have experts in every field.

You only say the opposite because you find yourself in a situation where you're attempting to make a video-game on your own and you have no help, no choice but to see things like that.

''Polymaths, are experts are solving low-mid level problems across a wider area of topics, usually because they are incapable of specialising in specific areas.''

Do you even understand what you are saying? Who would hire someone who isn't on a professional level in anything to do those jobs? It doesn't make any sense. Professional polymaths are the ones that once specialized in one thing and when they got good enough or got bored, they decided to learn and master new skills, add new tools to their belt. I would never ever hire someone who claims to be a generalist and isn't good at anything. That's just stupid.

Now, most people are specialists, because they love very specifically one thing. It's much harder to find individuals that are as much passionate for multiple things. But the bottom line is, for personal growth, it's much wiser to choose the path of the polymath, because all the new skills you'll acquire will make you even better at what you were already good at before and you'll be able to connect dots that very few people can.

And that's why generalists or polymaths are usually veterans of an industry. Any industry veteran would tell you that the main difference between a junior and a senior isn't the quality of the work. It's the work speed.

But anyway, feel free to still believe that polymaths are jack of all trades master of none.

"But the bottom line is, for personal growth, it's much wiser to choose the path of the polymath"

Again. That depends entirely on what you want you want to achieve and the complexity of the subject.

If you want to be a star quake player, the only way you'll get real respect is by doing it in duel, you can be the best FFA/CA/TDM/CTF player in the world, if you don't make it as a duel player, you don't get the same credit as those individuals who did no matter how superior you are across the board as a quaker, its that one mode that gets the love.

Even in duel games, if you don't do it in quake, for many people you won't get any respect from some because people who know, know quake has the highest challenge. No quake player ever watched a game of halo and got blown away, I guarantee you a Halo MLG player would watch a high end quake duel and thank god they never have to play such an opponent.

So if I go rape at halo, and cod, I'm better than someone who conquered the world of quake?

Its the same in sprinting, if you could get long jump gold, discus gold and pole vault gold, people would still perceive usain bolt as more special because he excelled at the 100m.

The simple fact is, you seldom if every get experts in multiple fields, if you do, you're probably a genius, or have a false perception of your skillsets.

Its entirely relevant to the subject in hand, you can't generalise.

If you just look at 3D artists, the best ones are highly technical, they have a vast knowledge and too the time to both learn and master different softwares such as Substance Designer, CrazyBump, xNormals, 3Dcoat, Substance Painter, Shaders creation (coding or node-based editor), etc. Those polymaths have the edge because they have more tools in their arsenal to solve problems and reach their goals faster and more efficiently.

What do you mean? there are many areas in 3D that is not technical at all. Learning how to use Zbrush for example as a modeler is not the same as "Master" modeling. its the modeling itself that you need to master, the art and creativity behind it and that takes a lifetime to "Master".

I can easily learn how animate in any software in a day or two, that's not the same as mastering animation. Mastering animation also takes a lifetime and even then i wouldn't know everything there is about animation.

this is why every big studios uses people who specializes in one area, because none or at the very least very very few comes even close to the skill needed if they don't focus on becoming awesome on just one thing. And that's simply because one thing (e.g Animation) isn't just "one" thing.
So no, a specialist are not cheaper... they are the opposite of cheap, because they are the best of the best (i don't even know why i have to explain why being best=$... but i did)

I'm no coder but i would assume the same thing applies here since its pretty much do on everything...

You are missing many important points here.

First of all, yes, everything in life can take forever to perfect, but when it comes to compare professionals, there isn't much difference between a senior artist and a senior. In fact, the difference is almost non-existent and in many cases, juniors can be much better and efficient due to their greater technical skills. You'll see that as well in anything else like pro gamers, UFC fighters, Olympic athletes, etc.

Chris Weidman VS Anderson Silva?

Now about those jobs in the video games industry. In case you didn't know this, a long time ago... game designers were also programmers and vice versa. Level designers were also 3D artists and vice versa. At some point, game companies wanted to increase the work speed by splitting jobs in half and hired more people that would work in parralel. That's great when employees are polymaths, not so great if they are specialists, because they actually lack the knowledge of the other side of the coin and teamwork will never fill that hole.

In fact, games these days are poorly done, super flawed and things that were unacceptable 10 years ago like skipping a whole enemy encounter by just running through the enemies to trigger a cutscene that will make them disappear right after is now oky in Halo 4. Or in games like Call of Duty, you can just stay there and time will do the job for you.

Now, you guys may think that big video games companies are looking for super talented specialists, veterans with 5-15 years of experience, etc. The reality is, that's not what they are looking for. When you have more than 4-5 years of experience, you understand how to make games, you understand the workflow,you know how to get things done, what needs to be fixed and when overtime is actually necessary or not. Well, guess what? That's exactly the type of people that they just don't want to hire. Most big companies want to hire people with less than 4 years of experience that will do as much overtime as they are told, will obey orders and not ask questions or even make suggestions to improve their work conditions.

That's the real world.

There are good game companies out there like Naughty Dog, but those are rare.

That said, we may be used to put things into different categories as it seems easier to process stuff, but the reality is... there is no such thing as separation. It's not better to be a specialist, in fact it's the worst thing you could do. I was watching an interview the other day with Ben Affleck. He got asked if it was hard for him to be an actor and direct is movies at the same time. Guess what? He answered that tit didn't make much difference, because in the end it's just the same soup for him. And that to understand how to act makes him a greater director and the fact he directs films makes him a greater actor, etc.

Bottom line, if someone wants to make games, then he should get his black belt (1-5 years of practice per field depending of the person) in programming, then 3D modeling, then 3D animation, game/level design and finally sound design.

I don't know much about game development but since the a lot of aspects that are similar to making Animated movies i just can't see how any of this makes sens.

I would assume that buggy games is due to the fact that AAA games are very complex these days, deadlines being tighter and publishers pushing the company to release the game before it finished to make money faster and not because "its all the specialist fault" reasoning...

Like i said i don't know much about game development can only tell you how it works in my company which does 3D animated movies and the 3D industry in general.
When we hire people for bigger projects we want specialists who are awesome at what they do. Animators are what we usually hire because that is something that takes a lot of time to do (at a high level) but we also sometimes hired people to do dynamics like water or other simulations or a artist only doing hair ect.
At big projects we usually hire one generalist as well but he only does the things that are "not as important" such as background animations or background simulations and so on or "boring" stuff that we don't have time to do.

If we would only hire Generalists because they are cheaper and everyone was doing a little bit of everything, every single aspect of the movie would become worse. much much worse.

i understand that some people want to be a 1 man army doing movies(/games) on your own because you love doing moves(/games) but if you want to be apart of something bigger and better you should specialize in one area and excel in it as far as you can and join up with the best.

I just can't see how games would be so much different.

Yeah Ben Affleck i won a few awards for Direction... what did he win for his Acting again? :)
Of curse past experiences can makes someone better at what they have the most talent for.
Brad Bird started out as an animator and are now a director at Pixar.
however... i would really like to see the quality of Ben Afflecks or Brad Birds Movies if they did every single aspect of movie making on their own.
They obviously have a lot of extremely talented people around them and those people are not generalists and i can tell you that for an fact.

"Now, you guys may think that big video games companies are looking for super talented specialists, veterans with 5-15 years of experience, etc. The reality is, that's not what they are looking for."

"Most big companies want to hire people with less than 4 years of experience that will do as much overtime as they are told, will obey orders and not ask questions or even make suggestions to improve their work conditions."

UBISOFT
http://postimg.org/image/8ipb762ep/

EA
http://postimg.org/image/ax1nluych/

NINTENDO/retro Studio
http://postimg.org/image/euvg5m5h1/

(Are they big enough?)

Honestly, you should really take a look at this.
http://gamasutra.com/blogs/AnthonyFarmer/2014...ctices.php

And I've worked for the Ubisoft/Gameloft family for over 4 years, have friends in almost all the companies around here (Eidos, Warner Bros, EA, Behavior, once had THQ, etc.). Almost all my teachers in both level design and 3D modeling once worked for Ubisoft. I got a pretty good idea of how it works aroudn here and what companies are looking for.

So Jamerio, you can post as many job offers as you want, it won't change what they really want.

And Bluder, well it's much harder to make films alone than video games. And when it comes to video games, it's not that some people wouldn't be able to make big video games on their own, it's more about the fact that it would take them too much time to pull off. So, it's not a skill thing, it's work speed thing.

And as I said to Jamerio, when I used the term, I did NOT mean someone who isn't good at anything. I used to term to describe someone who masters at least 2 different fields (ex: rigging, animating), so usually those guys are veterans of their industry.

Weidman vs Silva

rofl u cannot be srs

pcfs = postcard from space

just something that stuck playing SoF2 ctf pubs with a diff name every night.

became pcfs over time

Kept messing with m_pitch back in 96, after an excessive amount of toggling the console and adjusting the cvar my brother in law started calling me pitch.

Laskij=Laskovij in russian which means Gentle, which was meant as an ironic joke for the future when I would rape Cypher 20-0...

So much for that :/.


But my new name Laskovskiy is a combination of Laskij and the popular last name that ends in -ovskiy

Now you just hurt peoples feelings. ;)
gentle indeed

Hey! So it can be ironic

yey

Aw yeah

I'm curious how you got your old nicks, Apheleon and arQon.

All stolen.

I put together some letters that I thought sounded pretty okay-ish and later found out it's a form of another word which in Turkish means conquerer.

just removed a couple of vowels from my family's hometown. and 1337 speak, ofc.

FEEL THE LOLI-POWER! :>>

But I use different nicks everywhere. Cannot be settled with one. : (
But I have one which originates from my real family name - it's a dragon god's name /synonym for a certain dragon god in albanian mythology, and I use that nick's acronym (?) (removing the vowels from it and changing "k" to a "q") for a few years now on various sites. It's pretty unique, 90+% of the Google-hits are related to me. :>

Character from Final Fantasy VI. But I only found that out AFTER i saw the name tagged under a cool graffiti in Dortmund.

It stuck for 12yrs as my main nickname. I also use/used 'way2mash4u', 'kangaroo' or 'abracadaniel' from time to time.

Sick story innit.

served in the army

Mariano is my nickname from school (since 2001). Few years ago some dude on server said "no offence but mariano sounds like an italian pornstar name". Unfortunately, my penis is not enough big to be a porn star. That's why i started playing quake. True story.

Yeah, sad story. let me try to cheer you up and give one's countenance. Well, my dick is huge and its give me nothing, you know, like no one give me somthing for free. So, its not a big deal if you have a huge dick as i have. And i think that you still can be a funny polish guy with short penis.

F.M.X.

I chose my original nickname, FlashBack, because it sounds cool. I used it for a character in some MMORPG called Tibia. Eventually I wanted a new character but the name was obviously already taken so I tried to find something linked and that sounded good. I chose "Flash Soul". I was about 13 at the time, my English wasn't that good (this game actually taught me a lot) and I didn't care much about the meaning. Since FlashBack is always taken on every site I register to, I started using FlashSoul as my main internet identity.­

quake where idiots happen

lel

rofl you totally just made that up

i have witnesses

Latvietis means Latvian. So there's your language lesson for the day :D

Whenever I come across written Latvian, I get the vibe that someone half-learned Lithuanian, forgot most of it, then made up whatever they didn't know in half-Lithuanian to fill the gaps.

I'm sure you feel similarly when you read our written word. <3

Sveikas braliukas ble.
pro lithuanian ))))))))))
but yeah, from the words i know in lithuanian almost all of them are longer than the Latvian version.

This thread is funny :D

it means "im gay" in japanese

you proud to be gay you have to tell it to everyone and the world have to accept it right?

you have to but the sentences correctly together for that kind of joke to work.

ahah i almost saw this coming :p

Does he tell the whole world? He just explains the meaning of his nickname, wich is the whole point of this thread..

I dont understand youre reaction..

I made up mine ...
started from ronin, transformed to cyberronin, then to cyronin and then to cyronix, just sounds da best

as in ronin the movie with awesome French alleyways car chases?? :)

thats right, actually got the name from this movie, but its not because I am very fond of this movie, I remember it wasnt bad though, its prolly still watchable ... just the name sticked to me and how it sounds and the translation masterless samurai was also to my liking :-)

Can't remember

Well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9n0rDauxh04

?

I used to play with rediculously high sensitivity. Which was due to a 'lack of desk' and a frequent 'out of mousepad error' as I would just place a mousepad on my knee or on a box/crate/chair/whatever. Even very irregular shaped things I'd just put my mousepad on there and go :p

Someone pointed out that this was "not normal" and I figured that would be appropriate so I got out a dictionairy and looked up different definitions for "not normal"/"out of the ordinairy". And I found "Weird" to be one of the most positive words for that and also very closely related to my personality ;)

As I like to think outside of the box.

Always plus ur comments.

is THIS how you got used to moving mouse with your thum and for finger. (if i remember correctly.

ye but I changed my mouse style a lot over the course of many years though hehe....
But I played as described above for at least 2 years (99 - 01~02). And then I got a large desk + decent pc etc.

with thumb and what finger? in dont get it? index? you cant do that.

- Used to be called Apache
- Went to Croatia
- Slept with the gf of the forum moderator on the community site i was a part of
- he found out
- i was discarded from the community
- needed a new name fast as 'Apache' was now tainted and i wanted to play on the servers still
- thought of random words
- zoot sounded fun
- end

This is the best one yet.

oh Ina! ))

OH YOU PLAYBOY ))

LAD!

zoot, do you regret you did this to the forum moderator or do you wake up everyday laughing, dancing and singing "I hit that haha"?

Serious question zoot!

Haha, can't say I really think about it any more :) But if I'm being honest, I do chuckle heartily if my mind happens to cross the memory.

My origina was wem511, any guesses?

pokemon reference :p the 420 was to replace the childishness... kinda :P

been wayyyyyyyy too long ago to remember :>

i thought "wem" was the abbreviation of "wreck every mouse"

Not bad like I said before.thatt was before. Impossible!

from a fucking annoying turtle on a cloud throwing spiked turtles at you

always had problems with nicknames
i like reading books
read neal stephenson's snow crash
done

Had to come up with a name playing HL dm with my brother in 98. Back then I really liked the cheesy UPN crime series called "The Sentinel":



but since there a Sentinels everywhere i replaced the "i" with an "!".
This was at the same time the whole lower-uppercase was very popular, so I went full retard. Been too lazy to change it back, so who cares.

i replaced the "i" with an "!".
This was at the same time the whole lower-uppercase was very popular, so I went full retard.

After a while it looks odd and off to use lower caps and no i instead of !. You kinda grow to the full retard way of upper-lower casing.

übel - ill, bad, foul, sick, evil
in contrast to my real charcter

ahhh didn't know ^^ übel is a very beautiful word though, not used very often either

any ideas on rapha, cypher etc

Rapha:

I remember he once mentioned it's from the bible, so I googled some:

Smith's Bible Dictionary
Rapha

(tall).

Son of Binea, among the descendants of Saul. (1 Chronicles 8:37)
One of Benjamin's descendants. (1 Chronicles 8:2)

ra'-fa (rapha'):

(1) In the Revised Version margin these names are substituted for "the giant"

Now that's a pretty bad ass nickname!

Cypher:

Could be many things, I never recall him stating where it's from, but google says:

Cypher
Anything cyclical. If your freestyling, you rap in a cypher (one after the other). Interrupting another man will break that cypher (unless he's next in line and the dude behind him is falling off). The same concept applies to burning; there is a set order to who hits next

(the latter is probably more likely in this case)

I think it's also some guy from the Matrix, and apparently it's also some character from an old comic called New Mutans.

Wow nicw work. Ty bak!

just asked Cypher, and he said it's from the Matrix

AS I THOUGHT.

Initials. 3 was semi random

q2 item

REVEALED AT LAST!!

p.s. ztn2dm3 wouldn't be the same without you :)

or ptrip

good point -- although I think Rage's adren plays a more pivotal role in duels since it's so close to the RA battle area where you can limp away from a fight down the ladder to instant healing.

On ptrip it looks like someone dropped it there.

agreed broseph

audio-video editor Blaze Media Pro
:D

This nickname originated from "vurundshundba". Fictional race from a book called "Chimeras' Nests" by Max Fry (looks like it has never been translated into any other languages, at least I can't find one). I liked their way of life and their philosophy described by author, so I took it. At the end everyone (myself included) got so fucked up with it, that I made a shorter version :D

luke_ie -> luke internet explorer because its my favourite web broswer

Mine is multi-purpose. I make electronic music and have been normalising audio files for quite some years. Im a programmer and have to normalise my databases. Im old (relatively) and married with a kid and so my life has 'normalised' if you like to think that way.

Don't play with that account anymore though, changed to Noism a little while back. They're a japanese band I enjoy listening to and I like the idea of the word.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZa9IVNuTvA

In 2003, some dick on irc g-line'd my old name, and then took it for his admin account, (despite me having been using that name constantly since qtest was released.) I happened to be reading a book by Rob Ryan at the time, called 'ninemil,' and was just beginning to map, so registered the domain and starting publishing/playing under it, so no one else could justify taking a name off me again.

out of curiosity, what was your old name?

acidburn.

bigdiggernick was already taken, and banned. So I had to get creative.
I was listening to some NYDM band called Adramelech that day, but that was taken too. So went with Adramalik, then changed it to Amalik.

Åke = My father's first name
Vader = Badass motherfucker in StarWars

Edit: and "Åke" is a very oldschool Swedish name that was cool like 50-60 years ago, so the funny combo was the main point of going with it. ;)

Got it from the game Forsaken. It's the name of a weapon.

Incanus (my quake in-game nick)
Since a lot of folks on teh webz use incanus, i replaced the "s" with a 7.

my brain has deteriorated from all the adad dodge obviously

FFT stands in maths and physics for Fast Fourier Transform which is one of the greatest algorithms invented in maths ever. It is known for it's ridiculous speed efficiency at no trade of accuracy known to plague other algorithms like that. I have been asked a couple times in game if it stands for the fourier transform so it is that well known. I think even Memento_Mori called me out on it in this forum. Always feels good that people get your nickname.

I usually played with something like FastFourierTransformer, as a joke on the Transformers franchise or TheFastAndTheFouriers and other shit like that where I could tie in nerdy shit I enjoyed into mainstream culture.

FFT is just very easy to pronounce and it has a meaning to it and it is less offensive than the other shit I used to get to my opponents nerves.

I approve the nickname.
Although one could argue about your explanation a bit..... The fourier transform is just a transformation (towards frequencies). In the transformed space one can "think about different types of algorithms" to solve certain problems. And those algorithms are usualy faster than their counterparts in the regular (non-)transformed space.

The FFT did increase the transformation to much higher speeds than the alternatives before that (which weren't really compatible with computers).
The explanation presented kinda makes it seem like you can "do things with FFT". It's somewhat more subtle.... In general you do IFFT( algorithm_in_fft_space( FFT( origional problem ) ) ). And that can be faster than algorithm_in_origional_space(origional problem) becausethe algorithm is based on other properties.

(kinda confusing hehehehehe ;ppp... Hope I didn't make any stupid mistake in this :D )

The discrete Fourier Transformation is just a transformation the Fast Fourier Transformation is a fucking fast transformation. While the FT has superficially O(N^2) the FFT has O(N Log[N]) and even (LogN LogN for quantum computers) with zero loss of accuracy, as in there are no approximations involved only smart arguments of symmetry that allow continuous reduction of the problem to half its size.

As for the argument of frequency space to real space is also a valid one. When analyzing data you can get ridiculous amounts of data to noise ratio improvements applying the FT or some differential operators on a grid are very simple in fourier space, they only involve a FT, simple shift, iFT and done. instead of some tedious and inefficient relaxation methods. Especially when dealing with periodic boundary conditions.

But I kept my explanation short and simple out of respect for people who might read it.

fuck me, nerd talk over a nickname.

says the guy who has named himself after some otaku cartoon character inspired by 2D japanese milk tits and inhumanly large eyes. good going matey

EDIT: but yeah you hit it spot on. that is what my nickname is about. :DDDDDDDDD

My point is that the "simple shift in FT space" is actually a quite complex algorithm in "normal space" (this is not entirely correct language to talk about "spaces" here....).
But just doing the FT and an iFT would just result in the same thing as you started out with.

Aka the FT enables a different way of thinking about algorithms. But the FFT algorithm is only useful because it calculated the FT 'space' fast.

This different way of thinking about the problem (aka you think in adjusting frequencies rather than (for example) pixels) leads to more efficient algorithms, which even are so efficient that it is justified to do an FFT followed the algorithm follwed by an iFFT. Sometimes it can even be justified to do another type of FT and iFT... but that doesn't "gain" anything over doing the FFT and iFFT ;)

(blehhhhhhhhh details... it's anoying haha... I shouldn't have brought it up :DD)

Good nickname :D

When I talk about shifts I mean this- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete_Fourier...ft_theorem

Which is a blessing if you ever had to calculate a laplacian on a grid. Because you can just FT and multiply the whole transformed matrix by a static coefficient matrix element by element and transform it back and you have solved a poisson/laplace equation with ridiculous efficiency around 10 faster than some relaxation method would.

I know some image processing algorithms are heavily based on FT's and the little work I did was mind blowing how very simplistic filters in FT space (idk why you would say it is inappropriate to use the term 'space' in this context as it is very often used in literature and scientific jargon) would create very strong effects in real space. And ofc more advanced techniques are at the core of all the magic you can do in photoshop.

Although mostly I have worked with FT's (both continuous and discrete) are in theoretical physics, mostly in QFT, where momentum is a much more natural variable to talk than position. While there is no clear computational advantage, the change in variables can allow much greater insight.

I know what you mean with the shifting :p.

Well my use of the word "space" in the above post is a bit too free if you look at the strict meanings and begin to argue about the full details... I actually think that in most literature they talk about "domains" rather than "spaces"... But I don't really remember all the details ;)

I gotten to know the fft mainly through image processing algorithms (and a bit of wavelet stuff in combination with the fft as well on a course on sound processing (also very applicable to image processing).).

Anyway we're on the same page. Just in your origional post it was (imo) too unclear what the fft actually is. It sounded as if it was something much more magical :D

It is magical to me <3

aka stands for "also known as".

L33genD = L33 as l33t or elite and genD which is the second half of Legend, so my nick name means Elite Legend or L33genD.

but not gonna say from where i got "sofiene" :P

I' m heavily inspired by 90's hip hop. The female group Deadly Venoms released a track called Bomb Threats, that's where I got inspiration for my nick name.

Here the track:
http://youtu.be/UpzyRefVs0Y

http://akas.imdb.com/title/tt0116126/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxNsQ31yN7c

siege + onager :) sieger

I got what you intend, appreciate it for posting .Woh I am lucky to find this website through google. I was walking down the street wearing glasses when the prescription ran out. by Steven Wright. dabkfkkeaeee

Yeah insanely hard to find it through google. dfsfdsssssss

Goji berries.

Nah..

I named myself after a French band. Was going to go for meshuggah but I can't name myself after my favorite metal band, that would be wrong. Also because i'm not insane nor am I jewish.



Cheers to music enthusiasts and cynics alike.

Noooo.

I always thought






;_____;

https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira?t=b

this is names after that

Everytime I see your name I remind myself to add gojira to my spotify. I still havent done it

Named yourself after a french band named after a Japanese Kaiju film...

I sure hope you know this.

PS. The band is pretty boring other than a few songs =]

Thanks?

If you think I'm going to defend a band you're sadly mistaken. They can defend themselves.

The band used sleep. IT'S SUPER EFFECTIVE

The Series 888 Terminator, or T-888, is a variant of the Series 800 Terminator mass-produced by Skynet. The T-888 has been nicknamed by Resistance fighters as "T-triple-eight", "triple-eight" or simply "trip-eight".

Okay.

:)

Or nnnnoka? Bukka hotvha wacka flacjawacka

Just my MSN account name from 11 years ago, when i was playing Soldier of Fortune 1.

And yes, i like reptiles + MK2

homie call me dizzle on LAN back in 2000 like shit that good name =] stole it from tht bitch

i dont believe you

u sound like that btch

tht bitch

that btch

Fascinating... *takes notes*

thank ytou =]

My nick comes from a popular WAD for doom, combined with the fact my oldest brothers were all using latin nicknames and I wanted to be part of the cool kids, so I picked something that sounded like a pun in a deathmatch context.

http://www.pandasecurity.com/homeusers/securi...20Raid.330

Having gaming experience since 2002, I never really stuck with a particular one, not in quake. In the game I substantially play, since 2007 people know me as ShoCk. It was a random nick I engineered really quick when started to learn the game but then found myself to have become a world record holder just as quick. And because rules wouldn't allow me to nick change due to my records I was forced to stick with it.

Then it spread beyond the game and I realized I get annoyed at engineering stupid addings to the nick when creating new accounts on different sites and medias, like shock777, shock3r etc.. because obviously ShoCk is the most fucking used nick out there in gaming after -KilleR- and Sanya77RUS.

So I figured out that I want a nick that no one else use and that was when I was listening to Smile Empty Soul - Silhouettes, so to make sure that nick will be more rare I changed second i to e, googled and it was still used, then I decided to add 333 because 3 is my lucky number and having it repeated thrice is thrice cooller.

And as after 8 years of successful gaming and a clean reputation, the head admins let me change my nick. No more pain with accounts and shit. Pretty sure I'll carry this through my lifetime lel,

what's the game, out of interest?

1.6 CS Kreedz. It's sort of speed running on specially made maps with start and stop buttons, bunnyhop and stuff in case you don't know.

looks kinda like pql capped to 50ups :p

But anyway, gj reaching a high standard

Physics work so much differently, you would be surprised how much you need to learn.

And thanks.

I don't doubt you, in the videos I watched the player does all kinds of mad manoeuvres just to get across a simple obstacle :p But just because it's difficult doesn't mean it's pretty to watch ;)

I've got a lot on mind to reply to your post but I don't think that's wanted information. I'm just gonna say that I never claimed it to be beautiful regardless of it being so, in my perspective. But I don't expect from outsiders, it's about the "feel" that only gamers with knowledge can grasp, it's difficult but once you got it, it's beautiful :)

had this name since early 2002 when my love for electronic music was beginning.

Derb -derbiss track

Sucking Satan's fang since 2010.

Brain + ie because my favourite French players had "ie" at the end of their nicknames.

I used to call myself "nerwrak" thousands of years ago... the 90's sure feels like it. inspired by a donald duck pic i just HAD to take a webcam still of: http://imgur.com/7ZrIUsV
(simply put: a nerve wreck with a little language/lettering abuse/tint added) + coupled with "wreckage", altho I got teardropped far too frequently because of using that one on IRC... :P. so that resulted in a final version... well you guessed it. (I hope. if not, bajs på dig :P)

The bible, cos nothing is deadlier then religion.

Ludwig Boltzmann.

Badass name, badass beard. Made huge progress in statistical mechanics, but his methods philosophically undermined the commonly accepted beliefs at the time. Sadly ended his own life just as a revolution in physics was taking place that would prove that Boltzmann was right all along. But happily he's immortalised in the name of Boltzmann's constant, which I had a few people in games refer to.

As the #1 doom/quake fan in all of my small country, i always was raising servers, doing guides, etc. So my name is gameCONSTRUCTOR shrinked to gSTRUCTOR. Most people see STRUCTOR and immediately associates it with destruction, when its just that their minds are more destructive than constructive. First letter lowercase and rest uppercase was a form of rebel towards the norm, first letter uppercase rest lowercase.

I was originally called hot tod but then I inherited the prime chip from optimus on his death bed

sounds like nipple

used to love fizzy water a lot

When i was 16 i got WASTED and blacked out. Hahaha yes "blacked out" i get it! Anyways they said i was licking a brick wall. Now my name is br1ck.

When I was 16 I was so drunk that I walked into a Volvo that was parked, and fell straight to my back, and still my nickname is not Volvo.

I really like your writing style, excellent info, thank you for putting up bgbgcbkggggg

KiNG backwards ...

Maga dog means Mad Dog or mongrel in Jamaican slang. I noticed it while listening to some reggae and thought it would be a good handle because I've never heard of it before. It has served me well except for people change it fagadog sometimes.

The reggae song it comes from it pretty chill if you like reggae.

https://youtu.be/FTe46_SJ2tU